[Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

[Donald Ziesig]

On 02/26/2016 09:26 AM, Bart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/14/16, Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a bit off-topic.
>>
>> I have an ancient computer: Intel Celeron 700Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB IDE HD.
>> (http://flyingsheep.nl/computer_nostalgie.htm#celeron700)
>> (Hardware upgrades are not in the picture.)
>>
> Thanks to all for the give advice.
> In the end I have installed Debian 8.3.0 XFCE on my geriatric system.
> (I tested some other systems, but their installers just froze.)
>
> It's up and running.
> It feels rather slower than Suse 10.0 though.
>
> I managed to install fpc 3.0 (from install script, did not install from .deb)
> I managed to build Lazarus from svn.
> That took some 30 minutes, and at one time I thought the system had
> frozen, but it was just the linker taking ages (and probably being
> very memory hungry).
> I dealt with the infamous "crti.o not found" message.
>
> As we speak I'm typing this in Iceweasel!
>
> Bye for now.
>
> Bart
>
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Hi Bart,

Congrats on getting the old-timer to work.

Also congrats on getting rid of the crti.o message.  I have been 
ignoring those messages for years because they don't seem to do anything 
bad, but I sure would like to get rid of them.  How did you do it?

Thanks,

Don Ziesig