[lazarus] compiling from CVS

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Apr 29 19:09:31 EDT 2003


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> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 21:31, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > v1.06 compiled 2002/08/10 from the debian packages in debian unstable. It
> > > seems to work fine but chokes on main.pp line 1182. Commenting out the
> > > offending line gets lazarus up and going. Is it a problem with the
> > > compiler (too old or so) that gives the error?
> >
> > Yes, a recent 1.0.7 is recommended.
> 
> Good thinking requiring a compiler that has never been released.

There are several answers possible to this:

1 Sometimes there is no choice. Delaying lazarus development till the next
  FPC release is often not an option.
2 The lazarus team tries to delay stepping over to non release compilers as
  long as possible. This is easier just after a release, and quite hard if
  release engineering for a new FPC release has already begun.
3 The 1.0.x series is a fixes branch. Upgrading is relatively easy. The 1.1.x
  branch is bleeding edge. 
4 While not released as formal release, daily snapshots for 1.0.7 are
  available. 






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