[fpc-pascal] need help with svn structure

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 19 Jan 2007, schreef Marc Santhoff:

> Hi,
> 
> since I'm still bound to FreeBSD 4-STABLE for some reason I need to
> compile fpc myself (something changed in the startup code).

Note that you need a binary 2.0 compiler to bootstrap the latest fpc.
 
> I read the development page about svn but don't get it yet, although I
> have some experience with cvs.
>
> My goal is to use the latest stable release from svn plus important
> fixes. So I think I have to checkout the release branch for 2.0.4
>
> svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_2_0_4 fpc

Correct.
 
> and compile that. But what about the fixes branch? Do I need to check it
> out additionally? If yes, how are the two are linked together, from were
> do I start compilation?

The fixes branch contains the 2.0.5 version, which contains a few fixes 
that were done in 2.1, but were merged back to 2.0 at the request of 
users.

So check out either 2.0.4 or the fixes branch, but not both.

Daniël