Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/17/2014 2:14 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, waldo kitty said: in the above mentioned document, it also speaks of the grab_vcsa tool... i tried linking this from my ~/development (created by fpcup) but ended up having to actually copy the binary to /usr/local/bin (in

Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/17/2014 2:07 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: On 3/17/2014 6:46 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There might be something related to the locale command relevant to this. As a quick test I've just fired up fp on a Debian (non-x86) console and framing etc. was OK, I see LANG set

Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, waldo kitty said: > in the above mentioned document, it also speaks of the grab_vcsa tool... i > tried > linking this from my ~/development (created by fpcup) but ended up having to > actually copy the binary to /usr/local/bin (in my path and where i selected > to > pl

Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
waldo kitty wrote: On 3/17/2014 6:46 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: i'm not sure this is the proper area for this... if it is not, please point me to the proper list... i've a ubuntu system that i'm trying to run fp on... X does *not* start automatically... i'm working from t

Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/17/2014 6:46 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: i'm not sure this is the proper area for this... if it is not, please point me to the proper list... i've a ubuntu system that i'm trying to run fp on... X does *not* start automatically... i'm working from the virtual console(s)

Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread waldo kitty
On 3/17/2014 1:18 AM, Thaddy wrote: This is easy to fix : the encoding of your remote shell is set wrong. If you use sorry but there is no remote shell... this is sitting at the local console with no X running... thanks for the thought, though ;) PuTTY, go to "Window|Translations|Remote Ch

Re: [fpc-devel] -dREVINC

2014-03-17 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 17 Mar 2014, at 15:27, Thaddy wrote: This: -dREVINC as an option to include the revision number in builds is very useful for trunk builders but it is not documented and doesn't work for Windows. Is there a reason for that? It's not documented because it's it was probably never intended

[fpc-devel] -dREVINC

2014-03-17 Thread Thaddy
This: -dREVINC as an option to include the revision number in builds is very useful for trunk builders but it is not documented and doesn't work for Windows. Is there a reason for that? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ fpc

Re: [fpc-devel] fp without X

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
waldo kitty wrote: i'm not sure this is the proper area for this... if it is not, please point me to the proper list... i've a ubuntu system that i'm trying to run fp on... X does *not* start automatically... i'm working from the virtual console(s) 99% of the time... what i'm seeing and tryin

Re: [fpc-devel] make -j for windows, number of cores?

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Reinier Olislagers wrote: Quick test on Linux x64 VM seems to show increasing to 8 (matching my # of physical cores, no hyperthreading on my CPU) does increase performance... using the famous unit of time called "number of cups of coffee I thought I drank while waiting for the compile" Histori

Re: [fpc-devel] make -j for windows, number of cores?

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16/03/2014 19:45, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: The build faq (that I have) states: 1. Does make -j work reliably on Windows, too? 2. I intend to detect the number of logical cores as per http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-devel] make -j for windows, number of cores?

2014-03-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17/03/2014 10:36, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >>> No. Even not on Windows. You need the number of physical cores, not logical >>> ones. This will return the duplicate number of cores on systems with >>> hyperthreading. (I tested on my system and

Re: [fpc-devel] make -j for windows, number of cores?

2014-03-17 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > > No. Even not on Windows. You need the number of physical cores, not logical > > ones. This will return the duplicate number of cores on systems with > > hyperthreading. (I tested on my system and indeed, 8 instead of 4) > > Do you see a perfor

Re: [fpc-devel] make -j for windows, number of cores?

2014-03-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 16/03/2014 19:45, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >> The build faq (that I have) states: >> 1. Does make -j work reliably on Windows, too? >> 2. I intend to detect the number of logical cores as per >> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Example_of_mu