[fpc-devel] Some more work on the BeOS port

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Olivier Coursiere wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This summer i took some time to run the testsuite on my BeOS version. It help
> me fix a lot of bugs. Some of then were even preventing me from running tests.
> 
> I also made some cleanup in the BeOS rtl by removing 5 include files in the
> BeOS directory (osposixh.inc, unxsysch.inc, unxsysc.inc, sysfile.inc and
> sysdir.inc). Those files came from older versions or didn't need to be BeOS
> specific anymore in the libc based RTL.
> 
> Here is a patch containing the result of this work :
> http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/diff/fpc_beos_r8298.zip
> 
> This zip file contains 4 files :
> - rtl.diff : contains differences with revision 8298 (trunk/rtl directory)
> - packages.diff : contains differences with revision 8298 
> (trunk/packages directory)
> - tests.diff : contains differences with revision 8298 (trunk/tests directory)
> - tests_test_cg_obj_beos.zip : contains the objects files compiled with gcc
> under BeOS needed by some test cases.
> 
> With this patch i have less than 50 failed test cases. Most of then are
> related to threads or shared object generation.

Thank you very much for this work, it's most welcome.

I'll look at applying the patches ASAP.

Michael.