[Lazarus] Latest version of Lazarus for Mandriva 2008.0?

[brian]

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.