[fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

[Jeff Wormsley]

On 05/09/2012 01:06 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>
>> There are no binaries provided by my distribution. It's Slackware! 
>> But the
>> question was, was it really necessary to use such a recent glibc?
>
> And what, pray, is wrong with Slackware? :-)
>
> Most of the SPARC systems around here are Debian (plus one each of 
> Solaris 8 and 10), but I've got Slackware 12 IIRC on an E4500 since 
> the Debian installer wouldn't work. Good machine for testing 
> multithreaded stuff on account of the number of CPUs.
>
I don't think the OP meant he was running Slackware on Sun hardware, 
although maybe he (or she, I suppose) was.  It seemed to me there were 
two mostly unrelated questions: 1) How to get FPC on Solaris? and 2) Why 
doesn't FPC work on his version of Slackware Linux.

Jeff.