Re: Re: Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:26:13PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > Hi Bill, > > > Hello Roland, I know nothing about fpc, but does it really need to > > produce binaries statically linked with glibc ? I would expect to just > > link statically with the units and dynamically with glibc. This would >

Re: Re: Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-03-01 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Bill, > Hello Roland, I know nothing about fpc, but does it really need to > produce binaries statically linked with glibc ? I would expect to just > link statically with the units and dynamically with glibc. This would > be much less a problem. (In particular, if security bugs are found in >

Re: Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-02-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Stigge: > Unfortunately, fpc in Debian produces statically linked binaries, due to > the Pascal unit style library files. We currently don't have other > packages in the archive that Build-Depend on fp-compiler (except fpc > itself which indeed carries statically linked binaries) as examp

Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, maintaining m-tx, I would like to move from the p2c generated C sources to the original upstream Pascal sources (better suited for patches, development, design, etc.). m-tx is written in a Turbo Pascal dialect that can only be compiled with fpc (not gpc). Unfortunately, fpc in Debian produce