Guys maybe you know but will FPC run on a older linux ditribution like this?

The rpm is telling you that it has some file requirements that must be met before installing the package.

Cliff

Hi Cliff,

Guys maybe you know but will FPC run on a older linux ditribution like this?

so, Linux is not so far from Microsoft, you need the last version to do something ?

The rpm is telling you that it has some file requirements that must be met before installing the package.

well, and which version do I need ?

Thank's
Paul

I've installed RedHat 4.2 (Biltmore)
Kernel 2.0.30 on an i486

under "root" with :
$BASH = /bin/bash
$BASH_VERSION = 1.14.7(1)

rpm -i fpc-0_99_10-1_i386.rpm
failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by fpc-0.99.10-1
/bin/sh is needed by fpc-0.99.10-1

what's wrong ?

I'm not sure what your problem is. Any standard (even very basic) install of ANY RH system should include /bin/sh, either as a sym link to bash or some other shell, or a real sh, depending on what you select to install.

The only time I have ever seen this sort of thing is when a package is installed by hand so that RPM does not know about it (this message is telling you that the /bin/sh file/link was not installed by RPM, not that is not there). It could be a glitch in RPM as well. You should be able to override this by doing "rpm -i -nodep fpc-0_99_10-1_i386.rpm"

Cheers
Michael Anthon

Thank's Marco,
I'll try, but I think RedHat have made it for me.../bin/sh exist as a link to /bin/bash...
remember that I'm NOT a Linux user for now :) just a good Pascal programer

BTW: I've downloaded the ELF_tar.gz version.

sh is the old shell, which is used for scripts. The shell which is currently closest to SH is bash so simply softlink them:

cd /bin
ln -s bash sh

Marco van de Voort ()
<http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/xtdlib.htm>

I think there is a way to overide this in the spec file I will look that up tonight.

Peter do you have the spec file for the compiler rpm build. ? Not worried about it at the moment but could come in handy for the future...

Cliff

Name: fpc
Version: 0.99.10
Release: 1
ExclusiveArch: i386
Copyright: GPL
Group: Development/Languages
Source: fpc-0.99.10-src.tar.gz
Summary: Free Pascal Compiler
Packager: Michael Van Canneyt ()
URL: http://tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/~michael/fpc/fpc.html

%description
The Free Pascal Compiler is a Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi II compatible 32bit Pascal Compiler. It comes with fully TP 7.0 compatible run-time library. Some extensions are added to the language, like function overloading. Shared and static libraries can be linked and created. Linking with C libraries is easy, so interfaces can be written fast.

%define package fpc-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}
%define bindir /usr/bin
%define libdir /usr/lib/fpc
%define vlibdir %{libdir}/%{PACKAGE_VERSION}
%define unitdir %{vlibdir}/linuxunits

%prep
%setup -c

%build
make -C compiler cycle RELEASE=1
make -C rtl/utils all RELEASE=1

%install
make -C compiler install BININSTALLDIR=%{bindir} LIBINSTALLDIR=%{vlibdir} make -C rtl/linux install UNITINSTALLDIR=%{unitdir} make -C rtl/linux libinstall UNITINSTALLDIR=%{unitdir} PPUMOVE=../utils/ppumove make -C rtl/utils install BININSTALLDIR=%{bindir} UNITINSTALLDIR=%{unitdir}

%clean
make -C compiler clean
make -C rtl/utils clean
make -C rtl/linux libsclean

%post
%{vlibdir}/samplecfg %{vlibdir} `dirname \`find /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ -name libgcc.a -print | grep -v egcs \`` ldconfig

%files
%{bindir}/ppc386
%{bindir}/ppudump
%{bindir}/ppumove
%{bindir}/h2pas
%{vlibdir}
/usr/lib/libfpc.so
%dir %{libdir}

> cd /bin > ln -s bash sh This dependency is automaticly added by RPM. I couldn't remove it. Don't know why it has been added.

It's very common. /bin/sh is one of the few things under Linux you can rely on.

Do you let RPM execute some shellscript? Then probably it reads

#!/bin/sh

in the first line, and that's probably where the dependancy comes from.

/bin/sh should point to the default shell for executing scripts, preferably in a 'sh' compatible way (read BASH Bourne Again SH). I don't think you want to remove that dependancy, because it SHOULD be there.
Marco van de Voort ()
<http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/xtdlib.htm>

This dependency is automaticly added by RPM. I couldn't remove it. Don't know why it has been added.

Peter

Yes, there is a script 'samplecfg' which creates the /etc/ppc386.cfg