[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 RC1 from svn, various platforms

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Apologies in advance: these are rather stream-of-consciousness and might
be a couple of days out of date due to the slowness of some of my
development systems. Generally based on 38257 with FPC 2.6.0.

I've expressed various niggles with lhelp in another thread and won't
mention anything that appears to be common to all platforms here.

The SQL parsing bug at http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22463
appears to NOT affect RC1+2.6.0, i.e. operation is OK.

x86 Linux (Debian Squeeze) GTK2, Qt: build and subsequent operation OK.
Context-sensitive help OK.

SPARC Linux (Debian Etch) GTK2: build and subsequent operation OK except
that there might still be a SPARC code-generation bug (20397) patched in
trunk that I don't think has made its way back to 2.6.0. Invoking
context-sensitive help (with cursor on Application as in
Application.Initialize) results in an exception in both the LCL and 
lhelp, reported as bugs.

PPC Linux (Debian Lenny): build fails if -CX in fpc.cfg (will try to get
a bit more on this later). Operation OK except for context-sensitive
help which raises an exception in the IDE similar to SPARC (but not in 
lhelp).

Armel Linux (Debian Squeeze, guest on Qemu): build and subsequent
operation OK, including context-sensitive help except that there may be
an IDE exception "TApplication.HandleException : This operation is
illegal when the server is inactive." the first time round, this is
probably because the emulated CPU is unreasonably slow.

SPARC Solaris 10: build of Lazarus+LCL OK, subsequent operation OK. 
Build of documentation was unreasonably slow (more than two days). 
Invoking context-sensitive help raises an exception in lhelp but not in 
the IDE.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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