On 03/20/2012 03:45 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
brian wrote:
This is the Debian-based version of Mint. Standard Mint is
Ubuntu-based but the Debian version is for those who prefer a
rolling distribution. AFAIK, the current build is based on Debian
Wheezy.
I've tried downloading the svn version, and there's some problem
with libgdb.a, I can't even get FPC to build, let alone Lazarus.
There are YARDS of undefined globals. I finally got an answer from
someone on the FPC list (after just being told "fix your GDB") and
I'm trying to work my way through that at the moment.
Granted that not all messages get through our gateway, but is that the
thread from October last year? I only ask because your recounting of
that advice does sound somewhat... brutal.
Yes. I'm certain that the first answer I got said precisely and ONLY
that, but I can't find it in the folder now I look back. Either I'm
going ga-ga or it was a private reply or I just nuked it in disgust.
If that's all you have to say, why bother posting? I can't even
remember the name of the responder now. Apologies to you as you did
try to help - but it's not until I looked back and saw Pierre's
message that I've made any progress.
I fairly regularly build both FPC trunk and the current release on
multiple platforms (but markedly /not/ on x86-64) and in many cases
drop libgdb from FPC since it's only required for the fp IDE. Looking
at your list of undefineds, I think the right question would have been
"how can I build a vanilla libgdb that doesn't require a whole lot of
Python libraries etc."- and I'm afraid that's one for the gdb
developers rather than us.
So you're telling me that *any* program which I need to build myself
and which pulls in libgdb is going to have all those undefineds? That
does sound to be a bit of a shortcoming if so! I did try installing a
bunch of Python libraries as well, but didn't get anywhere.
Anyway, I shall keep bashing away at trying to get the svn versions to
build and install, and see whether they cure the latest problem. It
will take me a little while to get it done, but I'll report back if I
manage to fix it - I'm not too keen on the alternative, which is
trying to resurrect my Fortran from umpty-mumble years ago.
Brian.
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