[fpc-devel] Lazarus 1.0 and fpc 2.6 do not install on popular distributions

[Michel Catudal]

On 11/22/2012 05:27 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Hi fpc and Lazarus developers.
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> I just discovered that Lazarus 1.0.x and fpc 2.6 do not install out of the box on widely used distributions such as RHEL 5.8, CentOs 5.8, and Suse Enterprise 10.1.
> They're the most popular enterprise versions, which should be an important target for Lazarus and fpc diffusion. Paying customers are there!
> I purchased an HP laptop just a few weeks ago, and the preinstalled OS was Suse Enterprise 10.1.
> As the current policy of enterprise distro's is to provide a longer life cycle (Red Hat, followed by CentOs now provides a 10 years life cycle) the problem will stay there for a long time, unless some simple steps are taken.
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I would suggest to check for a version for a distribution that is closest to SuSE Enterprise. I use Scientific Linux 6.2 and probably could have used a version for Fedora 12 or 13 since that is what Redhat Enterprise is based on. You could download the one 
from my website. It was compiled for Scientific Linux 6.2 and might work on SuSE. If not just recompile it, I provide the source package.

You decompress it this way
rpm -i -vv fpc-2.6.0-2.el6.catu.src.rpm

and
rpmbuild -ba fpc.spec

If it doesn't compile it means that you have some missing files that you need to install. It usually tells you what is missing.

If you have problems download an earlier version of SuSE's version and compare the spec files. The differences between Redhat and SuSE aren't very large.

Michel


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