[Lazarus] Zero-byte lpi files

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 23.01.2016 22:07, Werner Pamler wrote:
> For some time now, I've been experiencing the problem that Lazarus 
> sporadically writes 0-byte lpi files. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce 
> this to give detailed instructions for a bug report.
>
> I open an existing project, modify something, save, compile, modify 
> again etc. Then I close Lazarus. When I come back some time later and 
> try to re-open the same project, the IDE complains that "the file ... 
> does not look like a lpi file". In the Windows explorer, the project's 
> lpi file has a length of zero bytes. Fortunately, the backup file is 
> still there which I can rename back to lpi to restore the project. But 
> this is really annoying. Sometimes it also happens with new projects 
> after the first save - and then there is no backup file yet...
>
> Yesterday I had the case that almost every second save destroyed the 
> lpi, today it's better.
> I am using Laz trunk/fpc 3.0 on Win7.
>
> Has anybody else seen this issue? Or is there anything which I do wrong?

It should be fixed in trunk: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29462

Ondrej