[Lazarus] Problem running EditorMacroScript on ARM was: Problem building for SPARC/Linux, and a couple of minor IDE wishlist items

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 18/02/2014 15:34, Martin Frb wrote:
> On 18/02/2014 12:01, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 12/02/2014 17:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Just tested on ARM (ARMHF, with FPC trunk), Laz trunk. Noticed Martin's
>> fix that still allows compilation on ARM.
>> Compiling the IDE went ok.
>> Starting it showed an error dialog:
>> The package EditorMacroScript (pascalscript macros) has detected a
>> problem and was deactivated.
>> The package failed its selftest with the message "Failed getstr2 [Expr:
>> "456" / Got: "abc"]".
>>
>> I wonder whether disabling the package on ARM CPUs as well as other non
>> x86/x64 CPUs would be a good solution?
> 
> Again IMHO 2 issues.
> 
> 1) Sparc:
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear: I wasn't talking about SPARC; you & Mark
covered that AFAIU?

> 2)ARM:
> pascal script has some support, it may be fixable, but I can not test...

TBH, I'm not interested in testing it either. I'll just keep it disabled
for all platforms in my default fpcup settings then.

Thanks,
Reinier