[Lazarus] Lazarus and SPARC Solaris

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:39:22AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> uses
>>    SysUtils, Classes, dos, LCLProc
>>    {$IFDEF HasIconvEnc},iconvenc{$ENDIF};
>>
>> Where do I go next? :-)
> 
> This is a FPC issue not lazarus. FPC doesn't compile the iconvenc package (
>  fpc/packages/iconvenc ) not for solaris.
> 
> If you can confirm that it works, I'll enable it.

OK, I'll get onto it later. In this context what constitutes working- 
that it compiles without error or is there a functional test?

> There are more such packages, see the "dirs=" statements in
> fpc/packages/Makefile.fpc.   (to the dirs_solaris line "iconvenc" should be
> added).
> 
> Probably you want to make a difference between the solaris line and the
> FreeBSD (this avoids some inheritly Linux specific packages) line there, and
> test which packages work with solaris.

Noted. I don't have any immediate plans to fire up any BSDs.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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