[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:46:11 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 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"
> 
> Impressive. :)

Thanks, I try to exercise things on a fairly regular basis. Help 
probably won't work on SPARC and PPC Linux due to issue 22696 (FPC), and 
there might be one unit excluded from Solaris which would be useful... 
I'll check this.

>> [...]
>> 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.
> 
> What timeout?

After the compiler name has been changed by the addition or removal of a 
single character, it goes and checks whether the filename is now valid. 
The timeout here is something like 10th sec, and displays a dialogue if 
the name is bad. The FPC sources etc. fields are OK, but this one will 
cause problems for anybody trying to use multiple compilers by 
specifying e.g. ppcppc-3.0.0 rather than just fpc (there's nowhere to 
put in a -V option which could be picked up by fpc).

I noticed that one a few months ago but assumed somebody else was aware: 
I know, there's no need to tell me.

>> 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.
> 
> This is a pretty old change.

Yes, but has only now become mandatory.

> Simply use CreateNew instead of Create.

I haven't had any success with that yet, but started from a position of 
suspecting that the problems I was seeing were platform-specific, it was 
quite a while before I found that some systems worked because they 
already had the configuration file that was being created.

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

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