[fpc-devel] FPC 2.4.2 RC1 available

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have placed the first release-candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler
> version 2.4.2 on our ftp-servers.
> 
> You can help improve the upcoming 2.4.2 release by downloading and
> testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here:
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_2.4.2

I've not had time to do the tests "by the book" but I can report that 
RC1 builds using 2.4.0 on armel, PPC, SPARC and x86 (all Debian 
"Lenny"), and then can build itself.

It's able to build Lazarus on SPARC, I've not checked the other 
platforms yet.

The only niggle I've got is that when I tried to build using 2.2 it went 
part way through and then barfed because of an "out" parameter. Could 
the compiler version be checked right at the start of the build?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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