[fpc-devel] Currency bug and FPC 3.2.0

[LacaK]

Dňa 10.10.2019 o 8:24 Jonas Maebe napísal(a):
> On 2019-10-10 08:03, LacaK wrote:
>
>> These patches are already merget to 3.2 branch, but there is condition
>> {$ifndef VER3_0}
>>
>> Am I right in assumption, that when FPC 3.2.0  compiler will be
>> released he will be build using FPC 3.0.4 ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If yes then this patch will be not included in upcoming FPC 3.2.0.
>
> No. Building FPC starts with a "make cycle", which means the compiler 
> gets built using the bootstrap compiler, then using the generated 
> compiler, and so on, until two generated compiler binaries are 
> identical (or until the Makefile detects this process does not 
> converge quickly enough). The final compiler binary produced by this 
> process is the installed/shipped one.

Thanks.

Then FPCUpDeluxe uses different approach to build FPC compiler? Because 
when I test with Lazarus/FPC build from 3.2 branch bug is still there.
May be that FPCUpDeluxe uses only one build cycle ... so FPC 3.2 is 
build using FPC 3.0.4 ?

-Laco.