On 4 May 2010 14:55, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's just the stupid .RPM and .DEB packages that prevent installation, due
> to other external dependencies (eg: pulling in MySQL or Firebird database
> libraries etc). I'm pretty confident a binary FPC executable can run on
> much older Linux distros. I anyway need to install Suse 8.0 for some old
> Kylix 3 project, so I'll be able to test this theory again. :-)

The fpc debs probably need to be split up, like e.g. php does.  Then
the dependencies would be more fine-grained.

Henry
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