[Lazarus] Latest version of Lazarus for Mandriva 2008.0?

[Vincent Snijders]

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.

Vincent