[fpc-pascal] problems compiling FPC

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Wednesday 17 October 2012 11:10:22 schrieb 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.

ACCEPTEDVERSION="x.x.x" also could be a flexible solution.

> 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.