[Pkg-pascal-devel] No MariaDB support in FPC in Debian stable

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 07/10/17 22:18, Colin Tuckley wrote:
>> I did read some of bug 863644², obviously that is not possible in plain
>> Debian. Can you explain to us why you are convinced that fpc is doing
>> stuff wrong? What features does cqrlog use from fpc that are broken?
> 
> cqrlog needs a database system. It can use Mysql or MariaDB via the
> support in FPC.

But it is doing it's own detection of the MySQL flavor... Why is it
doing that then?

> There is no Mysql in Debian stable (only MariaDB) and no MariaDB in FPC
> on Debian stable. So FPC database support is mis-matched to the
> distribution it is in!

Indeed, and nobody noticed until now. I'll start digging where on earth
fpc is doing MySQL stuff. I have never seen it so I don't know.

>> Accidentally,
> 
> I hope you mean *Incidently*

Well, close, English isn't my native language and this is too close, but
I think I wanted to write incidentally ;).

>> I uploaded fpc 3.0.2 to unstable just before your e-mail,
>> does that help in any way (obviously, you need to compile cqrlog again,
>> probably you have to wait until lazarus hits the archive as well and
>> don't forget to apply the needed stuff from bug 865777).
> 
> I'll take a look once it (and Lazarus) start hitting the mirrors etc.

I am waiting for fpc to be installed everywhere before I upload
libqtpas, which I need before I can upload lazarus. So it may take two days.

Paul

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