[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

The good news is that it builds with FPC 3.0.0 on:

PPC Linux, Debian "Lenny"
Raspbian "Jessie" on RPi2
SPARC OpenSXCE 2014 (approx. Solaris 11)
SPARC Linux, Debian "Squeeze"
x86 linux, Debian "Lenny" and "Jessie"
x86_64 linux, Debian "Jessie"

I've not tested any other ARM variant since I can only run those on 
minimal hardware or using Qemu which is infeasibly slow. I've also not 
tested MIPS where Lazarus is known to be a problem.

An annoyance affecting all platforms above is that the timeout in the 
"Configure Lazarus IDE" -> "Compiler" box is impossibly fast, if the 
default isn't right about the only way to use it is to paste a prepared 
name.

Slightly more serious from my POV is that a project that created a form 
early to set up a configuration file from a template is now giving 
problems on all tested platforms. I'm assuming that 
http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-A-change-in-LCL-require-your-TCustomForm-descendants-to-have-a-resource-or-to-use-a-CreateNer-td2402646.html 
is relevant, but at present am struggling.

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

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