[fpc-pascal] Make Pascal library usable for C (on Linux)

2009-12-10 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hello! I write C-headers for a library written in Pascal at time, to make it usable within C applications. On Linux, the libtool-program (part of GNU autotools) generates the necessary files for C-compilers to link against the library (libxyz.la, libxyz.a, libxyz.pc) How can I use libtool for Pasca

[fpc-pascal] Re: Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

2009-12-10 Thread Funky Beast
Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: >> 2009/12/10 Funky Beast : >>> I did read that, but I'm just wondering isn't 9.98767967 more approximate >>> to 10 than 9? >> How do you round a month? It makes sense that the function only gives >> full months, imo. Eithe

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

2009-12-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > 2009/12/10 Funky Beast : > > > > I did read that, but I'm just wondering isn't 9.98767967 more approximate > > to 10 than 9? > > How do you round a month? It makes sense that the function only gives > full months, imo. Either way, I think this is d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

2009-12-10 Thread Henry Vermaak
2009/12/10 Funky Beast : > > I did read that, but I'm just wondering isn't 9.98767967 more approximate to > 10 than 9? How do you round a month? It makes sense that the function only gives full months, imo. Either way, I think this is d€lphi compatible and at least documented. Henry __

[fpc-pascal] Re: Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

2009-12-10 Thread Funky Beast
Vincent Snijders wrote: > Funky Beast schreef: >> Hi, >> >> When trying to get the number of months between the following dates: >> 01-06-2009 and 01-08-2008 >> >> MonthsBetween returns: 9 months. >> >> That is clearly wrong (fundamentally counting with my fingers yields >> 10 months). >> Looking a

[fpc-pascal] GNU GLOBAL Source Code Tag System

2009-12-10 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
Dear All , In some of your messages I am reading questions about places of the some Lazarus and/or Free Pascal phrases/names . During installation of OpenSUSE 11.2 yesterday ( 2009-December-9 ) I saw a package named global , I have searched it Internet , and found the following sites : http://w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

2009-12-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
Funky Beast schreef: Hi, When trying to get the number of months between the following dates: 01-06-2009 and 01-08-2008 MonthsBetween returns: 9 months. That is clearly wrong (fundamentally counting with my fingers yields 10 months). Looking at the function in dateutils.inc, I copied the func

[fpc-pascal] Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

2009-12-10 Thread Funky Beast
Hi, When trying to get the number of months between the following dates: 01-06-2009 and 01-08-2008 MonthsBetween returns: 9 months. That is clearly wrong (fundamentally counting with my fingers yields 10 months). Looking at the function in dateutils.inc, I copied the function implementation to d

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpcmake targets and $defines

2009-12-10 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, December 10, 2009 01:03, Roland Schaefer wrote: > Hi, do the standard targets set up by fpcmake come with any defines > which allow conditional compilation depending on the target (like extra > code to be compiled only when doing 'make debug', for example)? If not, > can I get fpcmake to in