[Lazarus] Can't compile Lazarus on Linux Mint 15

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 29 09:23:35 CET 2013


Am 29.10.2013 09:01 schrieb "Reinier Olislagers" <
reinierolislagers at gmail.com>:
>
> On 28/10/2013 22:55, Sven Barth wrote:
> > On 28.10.2013 18:54, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> >> On 28/10/2013 17:58, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 02:00:25PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:52:44PM -0300, silvioprog wrote:
> >>>> It seems -XLA exists in the fpc sources but is neither documented nor
> >>>> listed in fpc -h.
> >>>
> >>> XLO/XLA has been documented in the buildfaq since 2.0.4 times.
> >>> Basically it is a simple system for substitutions and prioritization
> >>> on the
> >>> combined list of $linklibs for systems with flat linker namespaces.
> >>> (read:
> >>> linux and *BSD)
> >>
> >> So: woe betide anybody who expects fpc -h to actually spit out all
> >> available command line options... with however short a description.
> >> Shame.
> >
> > It was already mentioned sometimes ago that the help output of FPC is
> > maintained by hand and does not necessarily always contain all available
> > options.
>
> Thanks Sven. I understand and respect the "by hand" thing.
>
> What I find more problematic is not having all available options listed.
> The compiler itself is the natural, most logical place to have an
> overview of all options, which can then be further explained in other
> documentation.
>
> If all possible options aren't there, where should people be looking for
> a complete list?

The compiler's source. This is the only location which is really up to
date. (may sound harsh, but that's how it is...)

Regards,
Sven
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