I have a PC which seems to have some strange feature whereby versions of the Linux kernel newer than 2.6.22.19 will give clusters of NMIs because it thinks my CPU is in some strange mode (so the error message tells me). Mandriva's tech support have given up on the problem, and told me to flag it as a kernel bug, which I've done, but it means that my planned upgrade is a non-starter, and I'm locked into Mandriva 2008.0 (even 2008.1 will cause the problem). I tried the latest version of Mint as an alternative, but the same problem occurs.

So, a simple question. Does anyone know what would be the latest version of Lazarus and Free Pascal that I can run? Yes, there *is* a limit - for example, I tried to install WINE, and couldn't do so without the installer wanted to wipe out half of my base KDE setup as part of the upgrade. :( Trying to install the latest Lazarus caused the same type of problem.

Thanks,

Brian.

Installing fpc from the tar.gz has low dependencies.

Then you can compile Lazarus from source. If you have gtk 2.8 or higher that should work.

Vincent

Thanks, Vincent, but unfortunately getting GTK 2.8 to build also requires a whole bunch of upgrades - it needs a later GLIB than I have for starters, and it all cascades down from there.

After all the hassle I had downgrading from Mandriva 2009.1 back to Mandriva 2008.0 (you don't want to know, trust me!), I'm getting more than a little cautious about installing anything which hasn't been (preferably) packaged for Mandriva 2008.

May I ask the question again - if anyone else out there is still running Mandriva 2008.0, or some other distro with a kernel not later than 2.6.22.19, can you please tell me what version of Free Pascal and Lazarus you're running?

Thanks,

Brian.

What version of gtk 2.x and gtk 1.x is installed on your system?

Vincent

brian wrote

Thanks, Vincent, but unfortunately getting GTK 2.8 to build also requires a whole bunch of upgrades - it needs a later GLIB than I have for starters, and it all cascades down from there.

Unfortunately I have no solution for you at the moment. But I guess this is where the LCL-fpGUI widgets would come in very handy. It requires XLib & Xft only - no other large 3rd party libraries like GTK, GLIB, GDK etc. Hopefully some time in the near future I will have the time to continue working on LCL-fpGUI.

brian wrote

Thanks, Vincent, but unfortunately getting GTK 2.8 to build also requires a whole bunch of upgrades - it needs a later GLIB than I have for starters, and it all cascades down from there.

Unfortunately I have no solution for you at the moment. But I guess this is where the LCL-fpGUI widgets would come in very handy. It requires XLib & Xft only - no other large 3rd party libraries like GTK, GLIB, GDK etc. Hopefully some time in the near future I will have the time to continue working on LCL-fpGUI.

2.4 and 1.2

Brian.

Then you have the option to use gtk1 and compile Lazarus with: make all LCL_PLATFORM=gtk

Vincent

Thank you. I will give it a whirl.

Brian.