[fpc-pascal]Missing libpanel.a Library after a SuSE 7.1 Update

[Marco van de Voort]

> Hello List,
> 
> I Updated my Linux Server on the weekend (from SuSE 7.0 --> 7.1)

Interesting :_) What FPC version do they ship?

> and noticed that some of my programms were not compliling
> anymore.  A backup shows that the library
> "/usr/lib/libpanel.a"
> was removed with the update!
> 
> yet "/usr/lib/libpanel.so.4" and
>  "/usr/lib/libpanel.so.5" are there.
> 
> These librarys doesn't work!
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to correct to probem other
> than just copying the old library file back to
> /usr/lib

That might not work.

- Check which packages depend on it. If none, kill panel, and recompile from
source, either from TGZ, or, better, from SRPM, and rebuild, and copy the
generated .a by hand?)
  
- kick SUSE.