[fpc-pascal] problems compiling FPC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2012-10-17 01:40, Frank Church wrote:
>> As the solution doesn't seem to be too difficult which file or files can
>> "we" zoom in on to fix it?
> 
> 
> Thanks for showing interest in this. I know near zero about Makefiles
> and Makefile.fpc. I'm still a bit confused with FPC though. Does FPC now
> use fpmake everywhere? If yes, then why are there still so many
> Makefiles in FPC Trunk? Quite possibly I just don't understand the use
> of fpmake I guess.
> 
> The idea seems quite simple though. Do a `$compiler -iV` where $compiler
> is the starting compiler use to compile the FPC source code. If that
> version doesn't match a known "latest stable compiler version" constant,
> then report an error and terminate.

Some slack would be desirable: stable is 2.6.0 but there are known 
issues which are fixed by 2.6.1. Perhaps we need something like 
"FORCE=1" to allow a minor version bump to be accepted, or "FORCE=1.1" 
to accept anything up to 2.7.1.

However the thing that's really needed in my opinion is a clear 
statement for each SVN tag which FPC version should be used for 
compilation. Ditto for Lazarus, it shouldn't be necessary to delve into 
the source to find this.

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

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