[fpc-pascal] fpc svn development version fails to build from source

2015-08-08 Thread Roderick Johnstone
Hi I'm trying to build the fpc svn development version on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7. I already have the fpc-2.6.4-1.x86_64, fpc-src-2.6.4-140420.x86_64 and lazarus-1.4.2-0.x86_64 rpms installed. The build is failing like this: # make clean all install INSTALL_DIR=/var/tmp/testfpc . . [

Re: [fpc-pascal] alignment of records

2015-08-08 Thread Sven Barth
Am 08.08.2015 00:37 schrieb Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com: On 8/6/2015 8:25 PM, Xiangrong Fang wrote: It seems that $packrecord does not work at all. I always explicitly use PACKED Record as in Type ifmap = PACKED Record mem_start: dword;

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Just curious, what is FPC's documentation license? At moment it seems like it doesn't specify any all - which might not be a good idea. I looked in the fpcdocs repository and in all the generated PDF's. Normally open source projects specify a

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Gour
Michael Van Canneyt michael-y8GAwIkqPAJpn7uciFS/b...@public.gmane.org writes: I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. Hence I specify none for the docs. Ehh, I like this one…when considering to write something, it’s cumbersome that one has to think about licenses, law

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 08 Aug 2015, at 10:04, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. Hence I specify none for the docs. The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is that no one is

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 08 Aug 2015, at 10:04, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. Hence I specify none for the docs. The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-08-08 10:13, Jonas Maebe wrote: The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is that no one is allowed to do anything with your work without explicit permission from you Correct, and which actually applies a lot of restriction. I've been

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 08/08/15 11:21, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: If you believe in copyright law, yes. I don't believe in that either. As the saying goes: reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away... PS. And anyway: the whole discussion is moot. The latex files do contain some kind

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Gour
Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe-3rqwkoel1alvsukgzv2...@public.gmane.org writes: As the saying goes: reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away... (un)Fortunately. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 08 Aug 2015, at 10:04, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: I fundamentally do not believe in licenses. Not even free ones. Hence I specify none for the docs. The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is

Re: [fpc-pascal] alignment of records

2015-08-08 Thread Luca Olivetti
El 08/08/15 a les 09:30, Sven Barth ha escrit: Am 08.08.2015 00:37 schrieb Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com mailto:freedos...@gmail.com: On 8/6/2015 8:25 PM, Xiangrong Fang wrote: It seems that $packrecord does not work at all. I always explicitly use PACKED Record as in Type

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread geneb
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-08-08 10:13, Jonas Maebe wrote: The problem with this is that if you don't specify a license, the default in copyright law is that no one is allowed to do anything with your work without explicit permission from you Correct, and which