[fpc-devel] Mac OS X : Problems compiling system.pp under Darwin...

[Jonas Maebe]

On 14 Sep 2008, at 18:33, Dominique Louis wrote:

> I just did an svn update with the idea of rebuilding fro both Mac OS  
> X  i386 and powerpc, but when my script calls
> make -C darwin all
> The compiler seems to be in a loop in system.pp. It's been trying to  
> compile that unit now for about 20minutes while it only used to take  
> a couple of minutes when I did this last week. This "break" has been  
> like this since last night.
>
> The latest revision I have is 11778 and I'm using a v2.3.1 compiler  
> that was built on the 09/09/2008.

Are you starting with FPC 2.2.2? Building trunk is only guaranteed to  
work when starting with with the latest released FPC version (on all  
platforms, at all times). I have seen similar behaviour when trying to  
build the current 2.3.1 with a 2.3.1 from before the unicode branch  
merge.


Jonas