[fpc-devel] Missing library

[Miklos Cserzo]

On 7/6/2011 8:00 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Miklos Cserzo
> <miklos.cserzo at eok.sote.hu>  wrote:
>> fpc 2.4.2 gives the following error on SuSE 11.4. What is the name of the
>> missing package?
>>
>> "fp: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared
>> object file: No such file or directory"
>
> I have rebuild fpc 2.4.2 for Mandriva some time ago:
>
> http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/tmp/fpc-2.4.2-1mandriva.i386.rpm
>
> It should work fine in PCLinuxOS and SuSE too
>
> You can try to install this package instead of the default one.
>

Thanks for the advice. Let me summarize the result.

The Mandriva kit above installs fine. The 'fp' command is functional. 
The kits on the open SuSE site under the 'Open build service' are also 
fine. This is the good news. The bad news is that these kits are one 
release older than the most recent ones.

There is a second problem. I prefer parallel installation of 32 bit and 
64 bit variants of FPC. In the past there were bugs in the compiler 
effecting one of the versions selectively. The ready made kits of the 
SuSE site can not be installed in parallel.

I understand that the non-functional IDE and parallel installation are 
low priority problems. Possibly I should contact the guy who the open 
build service did. Do we know who was it?

Cheers,

miklos