Re: [fpc-devel] Re: EBCDIC (was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)

2012-02-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
steve smithers wrote: rvmart...@ntlworld.com wrote on Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:28:29 + (GMT) .. "Write once, compile anywhere" isn't that the motto? I'm not trying to suggest anything to break this model, but when I compile my code on the mainframe, I would expect stuff like if ch in['A'..'Z'] t

[fpc-devel] Re: EBCDIC (was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)

2012-02-03 Thread steve smithers
> rvmart...@ntlworld.com wrote on Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:28:29 + (GMT) > I had nearly 40 years of mainframe development (OS/360 through MVS and > VM/SP) and it is not a comfortable environment for developing code. > > My productivity went up about 200% when I got a PC as a host terminal. > I coded

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-02-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Nikolai Zhubr wrote: 03.02.2012 16:01, Nikolai Zhubr: 03.02.2012 14:26, Florian Klaempfl: How did you install debian? Or is it a chroot'ed debian? No, it it not chrooted. And by the way. If you somehow obtain wndr3800 and want debian on it, I can probably prepare ready-to-use images for h

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-02-03 Thread Nikolai Zhubr
03.02.2012 16:01, Nikolai Zhubr: 03.02.2012 14:26, Florian Klaempfl: How did you install debian? Or is it a chroot'ed debian? No, it it not chrooted. And by the way. If you somehow obtain wndr3800 and want debian on it, I can probably prepare ready-to-use images for hard disk and internal

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-02-03 Thread Nikolai Zhubr
03.02.2012 14:26, Florian Klaempfl: How did you install debian? Or is it a chroot'ed debian? No, it it not chrooted. Basically I took kernel from openwrt 10.03.1 build tree (it is also 2.6.32 but modified slightly to better support platform-specific peripherials), disabled NAND-related driv

Re: [fpc-devel] Building FPC on SPARC Solaris

2012-02-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Just a note to confirm that FPC 2.6.0 builds and installs from source on SPARC Solaris 10 and 8. I had to revert from 2.5.1 to 2.4.4 on one machine before it would compile, the other was still on 2.4.2. I am definitely not complaining, but purely for information I note

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-02-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 03.02.2012 01:37, schrieb Nikolai Zhubr: > Hi, > 31.01.2012 0:08, Pierre Free Pascal: Anyhow, I just discovered that the /home directory is 99% full on that GCC compile farm machine, meaning that only remote tests will be possible ☹ It seems that lots of developers have

Re: [fpc-devel] FPDoc imports

2012-02-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
michael.vancann...@wisa.be schrieb: In each case: If you want to file bug reports, please use the official sources only to reproduce the problem. FPDoc (trunk) exits with an AV, when I want to make the trunk RTL docs on Win7: make rtl.chk Is there any mandatory option missing from the com

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-02-03 Thread Jy V
Excellent. this is nice to see interest from other developers with the Netgear WNDR3800, not only I can ship a Netgear WNDR3800 to the home of any developer willing to spend time to port FPC for MIPS, but I am also ready to offer a reasonable bounty to get motivated anyone that would help to catch