[Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : Lazarus on Solaris 10

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ludo Brands wrote:
>> If I'm reading that properly you're using FPC 2.5.1, but what 
>> (numeric) 
>> version of Lazarus?
>>
> 
> First line says lazarus svn and fpc svn. Trunk lazarus is 0.9.31. 
> 
> Reason for using svn is the patch commited recently to solaris rtl and to
> get the non-commited alignment patches to Lazarus, attached to bug
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19109, working. These patches will
> probably not work on earlier lazarus releases.

Subject to one minor glitch the alignment patches are fine on 0.9.30.

>> I'm trying to put some time into the SPARC side, now that 
>> you've pointed 
>> out that SFW is applicable to 10 not 11. I'll be back.
>>
> 11 is quite a different beast compared to 10. It comes with a package
> manager that pulls in dependencies automatically from an official
> repository, much like other linuxes have been doing for years. All the
> packages pulled in from SFW for 10 are available in 11 from the official
> solaris repository. So that shouldn't stop you form try 11 express. However,
> the gnu-binutils from repository being bugged and only at version 2.19 while
> SFW offers 2.21.1, which is the latest full source release, raises the
> question whether a parallel source, such as SFW, isn't going to pop up
> quickly.  

Thanks, noted. I'm planning to work on 10 since that's what I've got.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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