[lazarus] Compile freezes up ??

[Jens Arm]

Hi

I have the 1.0.7 from the Lazarus-Page and the compile freezes, too :(
Any ideas???
Possible compiler-bug with too many operator overloads ???

Jens



> Yes,  on 9/21 1.0.7 was declared the required compiler on account of 
> certain bug fixes which were needed for proper Form streaming, and other 
> misc. problems in the 1.0.6 compiler. So there is a new 1.0.7 rpm you 
> can get from the lazarus ftp site, or you can always use the 1.0.7 
> nightly, or the 1_0_0 fixes branch from fpc cvs(its probably easiest to 
> get the rpm or nightlies unless you've done it from cvs before). Up 
> until now lazarus was compiling fine uner 1.0.6, but there were problems 
> in form streaming on acount of a buffer problem, but I guess now it is 
> required to compile as well. If you still have issues after upgrading 
> your compiler, then we can start worrying about verbosity & debugging. 
> If it IS a compiler issue, on account of the other issues it'll be 
> easiest if when this problem arrises we just tell people to get a newer 
> compiler then too try and track it down and make a work around for it.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> David Creelman wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 00:11, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >On 19 Oct 2002 18:19:44 +1000
> > >David Creelman  wrote
> > >
> > >>Strange,
> > >>
> > >>For me I can't even compile lazarus now. I do cvs update;make clean all
> > >>and then on graphicsmath.pp, the compiler becomes extremely busy and
> > >>XWindows response becomes very slow and eventually it crashes X11. This
> > >>is before even running it. Everything worked okay a few days ago. What
> > >>has changed ?
> > >
> > >The only thing that has changed in graphicsmath is that I added 2 more
> > >overloaded operators for Point := FloatPoint, and for FloatPoint := 
> > Point.
> > >This should have no bearing on compiler problems. Are you using the 
> > Lazarus
> > >1.0.7 or the nightlies?
> >
> > I'm on broadband, so I do a cvs update (now I'll always add -d, but that
> > doesn't solve the problem). I'm running fpc 1.0.6 on Mandrake 8.2. If I
> > compile it in a console (ie. not in an gnome terminal), it fails to
> > compile, but doesn't crash out X. It fails when trying to compile
> > graphicsmath.pp which is pulled in by allunits.pp.
> >
> > Is it necessary to have 1.0.7 now ? If it is should the makefile stop me
> > from using 1.0.6 ?
> >
> > Let me know if you want any verbosity flags turned on if you want me to
> > look into it.
> >
> >  I no longer have 1.0.6 to test on, so it could be a
> >
> > >operator overloading problem there I suppose.
> > >
> > >Andrew
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> 
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