freepascal.compiler/install/debian

Free Pascal for DEBIAN
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No changes were necessary to the source tree as checked out from
CVS at cvs.freepascal.org by
cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/FPC/CVS -z3 co -r RELEASE_1_0_8 fpc
The Debian Build Directory was created by 'make debcopy FPC_VERSION=1.0.8'
and then duplicated to .orig before 'dpkg-buildpackage -sa -rfakeroot' was
run.

In order to build the package yourself, you need a ppc386 compiler
later or equal to 1.0.4. And you need to change the following settings
in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to use (at least) the specified values:
hash_extra = 10000
pool_size = 250000
max_strings = 30000

You'll probably need to run

fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex

as root before first building this package -- see bug #70668 for more
details, at http://bugs.debian.org/70668.


As shipped, only the .pdf docs are built. You may want to make the HTML
files with latex2html by yourself, and eventually adapt the doc-base file.

To create a new config file for fpc (/etc/fpc.cfg) use the command:
/usr/lib/fpc/1.0.8/samplecfg /usr/lib/fpc/1.0.8
However, you should be aware, that said file /etc/fpc.cfg is
declared as a conffile since version 1.0.2.

Free Vision (fp-fv) had to be removed due to licesing issues.
It will return into the distribution as soon as these issues are resolved.

And, yes - this is a i386 only package currently.


Web site and download information:
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The Original site is
http://www.freepascal.org/
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/

HTTP Mirrored at
http://www.zeus.rug.ac.be/freepascal/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/pascal/fpc/www/
http://www.atlasz.com/freepascal/
http://deadlock.et.tudelft.nl/~fpc/
http://www.freepascal.sk/
http://ipbm.simr.pw.edu.pl/users/ftp-pub/mirrors/tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/%257Emichael/fpc/

FTP Mirrored at
ftp://ftp.epix.net/pub/languages/pascal/
ftp://ftp.techgnosis.net/pub/fpc/
ftp://ftp.fisek.com.tr/pub/fpc/
http://clubinfo.collegebdeb.qc.ca/nuitari/fpc/