[fpc-pascal] Re: problems compiling FPC

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 17-10-2012 12:49, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> On 2012-10-17 10:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> Some slack would be desirable: stable is 2.6.0 but there are known
>>> issues which are fixed by 2.6.1.
>>
>> Nope, the FPC developers made the rules quite clear! Not even the fixes
>> branch is guaranteed to compile FPC Trunk. ONLY the last released FPC is
>> guaranteed. I have even stumbled over this too, where the fixes branch
>> couldn't compile FPC Trunk, but the latest released version could.
> 
> Graeme, I know what policy is. However I'd point out that right now you
> /need/ 2.6.1 to compile FPC for SPARC due to code generation issues, and
> there have previously been similar problems with ARM while FP stuff was
> work-in-progress.
> 
> So saying "if it won't compile with stable then sod off" isn't helpful.

Mark, I understand what you mean.

Regardless of the way Graeme put his point, I think having:
- a rough check on latest stable compiler
- a way to force the makefile to override the check for people who need
this such as SPARC users)
will lessen the amount of problems significantly


Thanks,
Reinier