Vincent Snijders wrote:
brian schreef:
I have a PC which seems to have some strange feature whereby versions
of the Linux kernel newer than 2.6.22.19 will give clusters of NMIs
because it thinks my CPU is in some strange mode (so the error message
tells me). Mandriva's tech support have given up on the problem, and
told me to flag it as a kernel bug, which I've done, but it means that
my planned upgrade is a non-starter, and I'm locked into Mandriva
2008.0 (even 2008.1 will cause the problem). I tried the latest
version of Mint as an alternative, but the same problem occurs.
So, a simple question. Does anyone know what would be the latest
version of Lazarus and Free Pascal that I can run? Yes, there *is* a
limit - for example, I tried to install WINE, and couldn't do so
without the installer wanted to wipe out half of my base KDE setup as
part of the upgrade. :( Trying to install the latest Lazarus caused
the same type of problem.
Installing fpc from the tar.gz has low dependencies.
Then you can compile Lazarus from source. If you have gtk 2.8 or higher
that should work.
Thanks, Vincent, but unfortunately getting GTK 2.8 to build also
requires a whole bunch of upgrades - it needs a later GLIB than I have
for starters, and it all cascades down from there.
After all the hassle I had downgrading from Mandriva 2009.1 back to
Mandriva 2008.0 (you don't want to know, trust me!), I'm getting more
than a little cautious about installing anything which hasn't been
(preferably) packaged for Mandriva 2008.
May I ask the question again - if anyone else out there is still
running Mandriva 2008.0, or some other distro with a kernel not later
than 2.6.22.19, can you please tell me what version of Free Pascal and
Lazarus you're running?
Thanks,
Brian.
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