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

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 23/11/2012 00:27, Michel Catudal ha scritto:
> On 11/22/2012 05:27 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
>> Hi fpc and Lazarus developers.
>>
>> 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.
>
Thanks, but I managed to install. I just wanted to point out that those 
incompatibilities may frighten or discourage a new user.

Giuliano