Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Tony Whyman wrote: I am not convinced that it is a good idea for the default install to result in a broken system. It's not broken. As jonas said, make install is used a lot to install a new version, but that doesn't mean you want to make it t

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to test fpjson?

2016-01-29 Thread silvioprog
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, silvioprog wrote: >> >> Nice! :-) >> >> I already found two failures, but I don't know if it something in my >> environment (Lazarus 1.7 rUnknown FPC 3.1.1 i386-win32-win32/win64): >> > > It is related to i386. On

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Tony Whyman wrote: I am not convinced that it is a good idea for the default install to result in a broken system. It's not broken. As jonas said, make install is used a lot to install a new version, but that doesn't mean you want to make it the default version. Do n

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Jonas Maebe
Tony Whyman wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2016: On 29/01/16 13:35, Jonas Maebe wrote: The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target in the compiler directory. Why? Because "make install" is often used to install development versions of FPC, and the you don't necessarily want

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Tony Whyman
I think that my concern is that I fell into a simple trap. Now I know it's there I probably won't do it again - but I want to report it so that others don't do the same thing. The problem is that intuitively "make install" should install a working program or bring an existing one up-to-date. C

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Tony Whyman
I am not convinced that it is a good idea for the default install to result in a broken system. Wouldn't it be better to have a "NOSYMLINK" environment variable instead to handle the developer versions? Failing that a "README" file giving basic build instructions could be useful or a final mes

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Tony Whyman
On 29/01/16 13:14, Sven Barth wrote: Am 29.01.2016 13:24 schrieb "Tony Whyman" mailto:tony.why...@mccallumwhyman.com>>: > > I'm experimenting with building fpc from source in various combinations and a couple of issues have come up which could be bugs or just me not knowing which environment

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 29.01.2016 13:24 schrieb "Tony Whyman" : > > I'm experimenting with building fpc from source in various combinations and a couple of issues have come up which could be bugs or just me not knowing which environment variables to set. > > The build environment is a clean install of Linux Mint 17.2

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Tony Whyman wrote: I'm experimenting with building fpc from source in various combinations and a couple of issues have come up which could be bugs or just me not knowing which environment variables to set. The build environment is a clean install of Linux Mint 17.2 Cinn

Re: [fpc-pascal] GLExt crashing

2016-01-29 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:30:25 +0700 Ryan Joseph wrote: > Is it available in any version before 2.0 do you know? No. > I don’t know much about OpenGL but there is a 1.5 version also which maybe > has it. Of course it has it but it is OpenGL 1.5 not OpenGL ES 1.5. > I found this page also which

Re: [fpc-pascal] GLExt crashing

2016-01-29 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Ryan Joseph wrote: > Is it available in any version before 2.0 do you know? I don’t know > much about OpenGL but there is a 1.5 version also which maybe has > it. > Before OpenGLES version 2.0 (shader pipeline), you only have OpenGLES 1.1 and OpenGLES 1.0. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Jonas Maebe
Tony Whyman wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2016: On 29/01/16 13:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: This is as designed. The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target in the compiler directory. Why? Because "make install" is often used to install development versions of FPC, and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Tony Whyman
On 29/01/16 13:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: This is as designed. The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target in the compiler directory. Why? This means that "make install" is effectively broken as the symlink is essential for the compiler to work. ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] GLExt crashing

2016-01-29 Thread Ryan Joseph
Thanks for your response. I’m seeing the method glBlendEquationOES in Apple’s headers so I assume this is available in the OpenGLES framework included with iOS (8.0 at least). Not sure how to load the extension though... I’ll probably just deal with the default blending equation until I can im

[fpc-pascal] Issues with fpc-build-3.0.0

2016-01-29 Thread Tony Whyman
I'm experimenting with building fpc from source in various combinations and a couple of issues have come up which could be bugs or just me not knowing which environment variables to set. The build environment is a clean install of Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon (64 bit) with fpc 2.6.4 installed from