[Lazarus] Can't start lazarus trunk

[Joost van der Sluis]

Op 02-01-19 om 16:46 schreef C Western via lazarus:
> To start the current lazarus trunk, I had to delete ~/.fppkg, as 
> otherwise lazarus crashed after trying to execute a compiler that didn't 
> exist. Traceback is:
> 
> [FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred
>    Sender=EProcess
>    Exception=Executable not found: 
> "/home/me/fpc-3.0.2-64/lib/fpc/../../bin/fpc"
>    Stack trace:
>    $0000000000754320  EXECUTE,  line 345 of 
> fcl-process/src/unix/process.inc
>    $0000000000FB39B8  GETCOMPILERINFO,  line 370 of fppkg/src/pkgglobals.pp
>    $0000000000FB863B  CHECKCOMPILERVALUES,  line 1084 of 
> fppkg/src/pkgoptions.pp
>    $0000000000FABECF  INSTANCE,  line 90 of ../packager/fppkghelper.pas
>    $0000000000AAA134  OPENDEPENDENCY,  line 5840 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000A965C7  ADDPACKAGE,  line 2122 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000A91C0E  OPENDEPENDENCYWITHPACKAGELINK,  line 998 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000AA9C30  OPENDEPENDENCY,  line 5787 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000AAAEBB  OPENINSTALLEDDEPENDENCY,  line 5997 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000A96D4E  LOADLAZARUSBASEPACKAGE,  line 2213 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000A96BBF  LOADSTATICBASEPACKAGES,  line 2217 of 
> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>    $0000000000AB6A56  LOADINSTALLEDPACKAGES,  line 3086 of 
> ../packager/pkgmanager.pas
>    $00000000004A9203  CREATE,  line 1590 of main.pp
>    $000000000041F256  main,  line 140 of lazarus.pp
> 
> I am not aware of using .fppkg specifically, and the file 
> ~/.fppkg/config/default did indeed reference a invalid compiler (a test 
> version I had installed at some point). I suspect a test for the 
> compiler file existing needs adding somewhere.

Thanks for the stacktrace, even with debug-info for fppkg! These tests 
'in the wild' help me a lot.

Should be fixed. In FPC (added the check if the compiler exists) and in 
Lazarus (do not choke on it when an exception occurs)

Can you re-test?

Regards,

Joost.