[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> The good news is that after successful tests on x86 and x86-64 Linux 
> (Debian Jessie), yesterday evening I was able to compile and run Lazarus 
> 1.4 using FPC 3.0.1 on a SPARC running OpenSXCE (very approximately, 
> Solaris 11).

Also OK on PPC Mac running Linux.

> The bad news is that when I try to do the same natively on a Raspberry 
> Pi running 2014-era Raspbian, it consistently fails with

This is the perennial out-of-memory problem, it can be fixed by making 
sure there's at least 512 Mb swap. However the twist is that Raspbian 
reverts to what it thinks is a reasonable swapfile size at each boot, 
it's necessary to edit /sbin/dphys-swapfile to override this.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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