On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:08 +0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:40:09 +0200, Joost van der Sluis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > < snip > > > > But maybe it would be very useful if you help with the basic testing. > > When a release is build (relatively simple) you always have to test it > > on an 'empty' system. You could help with that. > > > > And, offcourse, you could try to build a release right now, using the > > fpc-2.4.1 branch. For as many as possible releases. Marco has posted url > > which explain how to do it. And report all problems you encounter. So > > that the chances that 'we' encounter them when we are building the > > official releases, don't have any problems. > > I'm already in the process of setting up a box with VMware ESXi 4. It will > be a > test bed and a build farm machine. It has a lot of RAM and is powerfull > enough to > serve that purpose. > > Is it possible to give me a list of OS's you think i can help ? I can do > Linux, > Windows (win32, win64, wince) and some OSX ( I also have installed > hackintosh 10.5.8 on my machine on a spare disk ... )
Hackintosh could be easy for the first test, but I doubt Jonas will accept a release of fpc build on it. ;) Take a look at the download-page of freepascal. What I miss is Linux 32 and 64 bit. (rpm and deb based. Plus our own installer in .tar format) And FreeBSD (32 and 64 bit, Marco?), arm-linux. Joost. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
