[lazarus] Compile freezes up ??

[David Creelman]

Yes, let's talk about it.

I for one would be happy to be rid of the crop circles. You said that
there is a way that we can get what we need without the circular
references ? How would that work ?

Cheers
DC

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 23:48, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:47:59 +0200 (CEST)
> "Peter Vreman" <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Karl Brandt wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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 ?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> I'm having similar problem when i try to compile the lcl under
> > >win32:> I get the following message:
> > >>  Compiling graphicsmath.pp
> > >>  Error: Stack Overflow
> > >>  Compilation aborted graphicsmath.pp:152
> > >>  C:\BIN\CODE\FPC\BIN\WIN32\MAKE.EXE: *** [allunits.ppw] Error 202
> > 
> > A stack overflow most of the times has to do with having too many
> > interdependent units. Restarting the compilation with already some
> > ppu's available can 'fix' the problem.
> > In the development (1.1) compiler this problem should be fixed.
> 
> Today I compiled lazarus under debian with 1.0.7 from May 23 and
> compilation aborted in graphicsmath.pp with a seg fault. Updating the
> compiler fixed the problem. So there was definitely a bugfix. The
> current fpc rpm on the laz website works for me, but not for Jens, so
> I'm not sure if a newer fpc will solve this problem. 
> 
> The interdependent units:
> There are a lot of circles in the LCL, inherited from the VCL. I think,
> circles are design flaws. And I think, they can be broken without
> loosing too much compatibility. But IMO each of such changes should be
> discussed first on this list.
> Should we begin such a discussion?
> 
> 
> Mattias
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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