Hi All,
I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 and I want to use FPC-1.0.6. I have used FPC-0.99..1.0.6 on Linux-Slackware and it has worked fine for all my needs, but now I have re-switched to FreeBSD. So, is somebody using FPC-1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.0, and what kind of problem did he/she find?

Thanks!

I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 and I want to use FPC-1.0.6. I have used FPC-0.99..1.0.6 on Linux-Slackware and it has worked fine for all my needs, but now I have re-switched to FreeBSD. So, is somebody using FPC-1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.0, and what kind of problem did he/she find?

The FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (5.0) is still in its fase of development, probably till 5.2, this can be noticed by 5.0 being substantialer slower than 4.x, which is because 5.x still has to be performance tuned with reallife workloads.

However from a FPC point of view it doesn't matter much. Just grab the most recent FreeBSD version, and install it on a FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x installation.

Nearly all things will work, except a few very Linux specific calls in unit Unix. Also threading in 1.1 has a few performance problems, but that is a FreeBSD problem, not a FPC one. (we hope it goes away when KSE pthreading is introduced in a next 5.x version)