Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Come on, the linux package systems are stupid and stupid systems can be fooled. One can provide a fpc bootstrap package containing precompiled assembler files which are assembled when built. That's what I would recommend nvidia for years: provide their drivers as assembler files. Nobody can proof

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Vreman
> >> I would love to be a maintainer and build .deb files, however I do not >> own a 64 bit CPU and can't afford one at the moment because it would >> also mean a new motherboard and RAM too, so that crosses me out pretty >> much. In fact, I really would love to see Free Pascal packages in the >> U

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, On 8/28/06, Rob van der Linde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you very much, I was waiting for the release of 2.0.4 so I could compile .DEB packages for Ubuntu Dapper as I had previously compiled the 2.0.2 release for Ubuntu for people to download. I just found out that there are now off

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 22:05 +0100, peter green wrote: > the problem is that ubuntu has a general policy against binary uploads > (because it ensures that the packages can indeed be built on systems > other than the maintainers private system). I think that this is the case for all distributions.

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 29 Aug 06, at 22:05, peter green wrote: > > For the recursive build-dep. This is a onetime issue. > This is making the rather uncertain assumption that each version > can be built with the last (not true with all 1.9.x versions > though maybe more effort is being made post 2.0.0). FPC policy

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Tue, 29 Aug 2006, schreef peter green: > > > For the recursive build-dep. This is a onetime issue. > This is making the rather uncertain assumption that each version can be > built with the last (not true with all 1.9.x versions though maybe more > effort is being made post 2.0.0). It i

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread peter green
> For the recursive build-dep. This is a onetime issue. This is making the rather uncertain assumption that each version can be built with the last (not true with all 1.9.x versions though maybe more effort is being made post 2.0.0). >The > maintainer needs once to make > a binary upload and

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 29 Aug 06, at 19:50, Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote: > peter green schrieb: . . > [1] The current issue: > Until freepascal 2.0.4-rc3 the deb build worked as it should, but with the > the final release is fails. > The reason was the missing libgdb binary. So I downloaded it and it worked > again, b

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 29 Aug 06, at 18:46, Rob van der Linde wrote: . . > I would love to be a maintainer and build .deb files, however I do not > own a 64 bit CPU and can't afford one at the moment because it would > also mean a new motherboard and RAM too, so that crosses me out pretty > much. In fact, I really w

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Stefan Kisdaroczi
Hi, peter green schrieb: >> I would love to be a maintainer and build .deb files, however I do not >> own a 64 bit CPU and can't afford one at the moment because it would >> also mean a new motherboard and RAM too, so that crosses me out pretty >> much. In fact, I really would love to see Free Pas

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread peter green
> I would love to be a maintainer and build .deb files, however I do not > own a 64 bit CPU and can't afford one at the moment because it would > also mean a new motherboard and RAM too, so that crosses me out pretty > much. In fact, I really would love to see Free Pascal packages in the > Ubuntu

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Stefan Kisdaroczi
Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote: > Hi, > > Daniël Mantione wrote: >> Op Tue, 29 Aug 2006, schreef Rob van der Linde: >> >>> [...] >>> >>> It would be nice to see 64 bit .DEB packages downloadable too, in the >>> future maybe. I think .DEB packages are very important to support, since >>> Ubuntu is now one

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.0.4 is out!

2006-08-29 Thread Stefan Kisdaroczi
Hi, Daniël Mantione wrote: > > Op Tue, 29 Aug 2006, schreef Rob van der Linde: > >> [...] >> >> It would be nice to see 64 bit .DEB packages downloadable too, in the >> future maybe. I think .DEB packages are very important to support, since >> Ubuntu is now one of the top Linux distros. > > .d