[fpc-pascal] Re: windres not required/provided by Debian 2.6.0 FPC

[Reinier Olislagers]

Hi Tomas,

On 8-10-2012 9:12, Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On Mon, October 8, 2012 08:21, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Reinier,
> 
>> While getting a Jenkins continuous integration server going....
>>
>> On Debian 6 (Squeeze), I installed just enough packages to get a
>> compiler and get a compile job going
>  .
>  .
>> The manual mentions that the FreePascal distribution comes with the
>> windres resource compiler
>> (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progse59.html).
>  .
>  .
> 
> The manual forgets to mention that this is only the case on Win32 (where
> the various GNU tools and utilities are included with the FPC installation
> package). It also doesn't mention that different resource compilers may be
> used on other platforms (e.g. gorc on Win64, etc.).
Could be.

HOWEVER: I'm sure you can put multiple resource compiler packages in the
Debian dependency requirements, so any one of those will satisfy the
install.
This way there would be no need to modify the manual as far as
Debian/Ubuntu is concerned and users can just start to program without
having to worry about satisfying dependencies.

If that (for some obscure reason) is too restrictive, it could at least
be put in the recommends section.

I'm sure rpm has similar provisions.


Thanks,
Reinier