[fpc-devel] Installation of FPC under Debian from .deb and , rpm packages

[Tomas Hajny]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 19:37, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> Tomas Hajny wrote:
>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 10:25, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/5/9 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <sanliturk at ttmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Dear FPC Developers ,
>>>>
>>>> In those days I am trying to install FPC and Lazarus under Debian
>>>> 5.0.0
>>>> from .deb and .rpm builds ( release and snapshots ) without success .
>>>>
>>> i'd recommend that you compile from source (trunk), as latest debian
>>> is eabi and the fpc release uses oabi.
>>>
>>
>> Was the original post related to ARM processor?
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>>
> Dear Tomas ,
>
> No . It is a PC with Intel processor ( i386 ) .
>
> In the Debian 5.0.0 package installer , searching fpc or lazarus is not
> finding any package ,
> but  in Debian web site  package repository  there are  lazarus and
> fpc  packages  .  When  their  pages  are  visited , they are saying
> that use Synaptic , but Synaptic is not finding either Lazarus or FPC .
>
>
> I tried only .deb packages from links obtained from Lazarus web site :
> Download Lazarus , and .rpm packages from Lazarus snapshot servers .
>
> Jonas Maebe said that Debian 5.0.0 is using EABI , but FPC and Lazarus
> packages are  old ABI .
 .
 .

Well, I'm afraid that I cannot help you with the problem, but my
understanding is that eabi and oabi conventions (mentioned by Henry
Vermaak above as far as I could see, not Jonas?) are specifications
relevant for ARM platform, not to x86 machines (that's why I asked the
question about ARM), and thus not necessarily related to your issue.

Tomas