On Wed, 15 Apr 2026, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
Op 15-4-2026 om 21:14 schreef baldzhang via fpc-devel:
My pain points and an idea
with 3.2.2 the openssl unit is for version 1.1.x, for now, lots of distro
removed openssl 1.1, even in slackware-current
I can not upgrade to 3.2.4-rc1 just because it's come with openssl 3, I was
stucked then...
Delete the openssl directory in
$PREFIX/fpc/$FPCVERSION/units/$FPCTARGET/ and simply add a copy of the
units that you want to some dir that you include with -Fu.
my thinking:
is it possible to split to compiler and rtl/packages?
after certain period of a release, 6 months or 1 year or by devel team
thought, release a updated rtl/packages only version
This is hard to impossible. And to even attempt it to for the benefit of
a package (openssl) that is relatively standalone is counterproductive.
It is doing something really hard to fix something really simple.
I would put some nuance to this answer:
Compiler and RTL are intimately bound. Splitting those is indeed next to
impossible.
But packages and most utils are quite independent, with exception of
the text-mode IDE, as it needs the compiler, and possibly the RTTI unit.
It's not worth it for a single package, but given that there are many
packages, it could be worth it to split them from the compiler/rtl in order
to speed up releases of packages: take the latest released compiler and
bundle it with the packages.
Small exceptions aside, I build all package code to be usable with 3.2.2 as
well, for the simple reason that I want it available in the lazarus IDE.
Michael.
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