On 11/22/2012 05:27 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Hi fpc and Lazarus developers.
I just discovered that Lazarus 1.0.x and fpc 2.6 do not install out of the box
on widely used distributions such as RHEL 5.8, CentOs 5.8, and Suse Enterprise
10.1.
They're the most popular enterprise versions, which should be an important
target for Lazarus and fpc diffusion. Paying customers are there!
I purchased an HP laptop just a few weeks ago, and the preinstalled OS was Suse
Enterprise 10.1.
As the current policy of enterprise distro's is to provide a longer life cycle
(Red Hat, followed by CentOs now provides a 10 years life cycle) the problem
will stay there for a long time, unless some simple steps are taken.
I would suggest to check for a version for a distribution that is closest to SuSE Enterprise. I use Scientific Linux 6.2 and probably could have used a version for Fedora 12 or 13 since that is what Redhat Enterprise is based on. You could download the one
from my website. It was compiled for Scientific Linux 6.2 and might work on SuSE. If not just recompile it, I provide the source package.
You decompress it this way
rpm -i -vv fpc-2.6.0-2.el6.catu.src.rpm
and
rpmbuild -ba fpc.spec
If it doesn't compile it means that you have some missing files that you need
to install. It usually tells you what is missing.
If you have problems download an earlier version of SuSE's version and compare
the spec files. The differences between Redhat and SuSE aren't very large.
Michel
--
For Linux Software visit
http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal
_______________________________________________
fpc-devel maillist - [email protected]
http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
