[Lazarus] Using different FPC versions

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Feb 11 15:53:59 CET 2014



On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:31:25 +0100 (CET)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:10:51 +0100
>>> Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>> * In either case, the IDE queries the ppc386 version using -iV.
>>>>
>>>> That is wrong, it should query fpc for that.
>>>
>>> When is that wrong?
>>
>> For one thing:
>>
>> When the architecture-specific compiler has a different version
>> than the 'default' one, the results may differ...
>
> Yes.
> A {$IFDEF VER2_6_2} depends on the ppcxxx version, does it not?

Yes, definitely. 
So for the use of macros you'll need the "backend" (if we can use such word) version.

Michael.




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