[lazarus] Warning during build / IDE crashes

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:55:06 -0400
"Andrew Johnson" <aj_genius at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:53:37 +0200
> "Mattias Gaertner" <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:42:52 +0200
> >"Vincent Snijders" <vslist at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When I rebuild Lazarus with the build tool I get the following warning:
> > > Warning: Unit DESIGNER was not found, but DESIGNERSTR >exists.
> 
> >I'm not sure, but it looks like an fpc compatibility warning for DOS 8.3 
> >systems.
> 
> 
> > > I don't know what the consequences are.
> 
> >Apparently none.
> 
> 
> I just realized that since I upgraded on saturday, I have had this too, 
> under Linux so its not a Dos error I do not think. 

I didn't say error. I said compatibility warning. 'Designer' has 8 letters and they are the same to the first 8 letters of 'DesignerStr', so this can be a problem on DOS 8-3 filesystems and therefore fpc warns. It's just a warning, not the reason for the crashes. I have renamed the unit to objinspstrconsts.pas. I think, the name is better than designerstr.pas, because it contains the resourcestrings for the OI and its units.


> And  since the same time 
> Laz. has been somewhat unstable, where it will suddenly crash for no good 
> reason. For instance I opened up a freshly built Lazarus from CVS, and made 
> some changes, I hit save all, and it died. There was no stacktrace either, 
> just said Acces Violation.. that's it.

This probably means a stack overflow. 
Since two weeks the codetools show cache inconsistencies. But because the codetool cache systems are the big part of the IDE mem, this can mean nothing.


Mattias