[fpc-devel] 2.0.4-rc3 available

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Dave Parsons wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:08:29 +0200, Tomas Hajny wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to announce that the third (and
>> hopefully last) release candidate for FPC 2.0.4
>> is available for download for most platforms
>> (i386-linux, x86_64-linux, i386-win32, powerpc-
>> macosx, i386-go32v2, arm-linux and powerpc-
>> linux). You can download it from
>> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.0.4-rc3/.
>> i386-freebsd should be hopefully added in the
>> following days. Please, let us know of any
>> potential showstoppers before the next weekend
>> (Saturday, August 20).
>>
>> Tomas
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to this list and my interests are in Lazarus under
> OS/2 and Linux and therefore by inference fpc.
>
> I tried to compile Lazarus with the last official fpc release,
> os2200 a couple of days ago, but that was too old.
>
> So, thanks for this rc which I have downloaded and built
> under OS/2. I'm still feeling my way around so I'm not sure
> that everything compiled that could be expected, but the
> compiler and many executables are there and work.
> I spotted one comment about GDB as the output scrolled
> past that said that debugging would be unavailable.
> Is this normal or a fault with my set up?

You must compile with debug information included for gdb to work, 
you should set this option explicitly.

Michael.