[Lazarus] Can't start lazarus trunk

[C Western]

On 02/01/2019 23:31, Joost van der Sluis via lazarus wrote:
> Op 02-01-19 om 16:46 schreef C Western via lazarus:
>> To start the current lazarus trunk, I had to delete ~/.fppkg, as 
>> otherwise lazarus crashed after trying to execute a compiler that 
>> didn't exist. Traceback is:
>>
>> [FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred
>>    Sender=EProcess
>>    Exception=Executable not found: 
>> "/home/me/fpc-3.0.2-64/lib/fpc/../../bin/fpc"
>>    Stack trace:
>>    $0000000000754320  EXECUTE,  line 345 of 
>> fcl-process/src/unix/process.inc
>>    $0000000000FB39B8  GETCOMPILERINFO,  line 370 of 
>> fppkg/src/pkgglobals.pp
>>    $0000000000FB863B  CHECKCOMPILERVALUES,  line 1084 of 
>> fppkg/src/pkgoptions.pp
>>    $0000000000FABECF  INSTANCE,  line 90 of ../packager/fppkghelper.pas
>>    $0000000000AAA134  OPENDEPENDENCY,  line 5840 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000A965C7  ADDPACKAGE,  line 2122 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000A91C0E  OPENDEPENDENCYWITHPACKAGELINK,  line 998 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000AA9C30  OPENDEPENDENCY,  line 5787 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000AAAEBB  OPENINSTALLEDDEPENDENCY,  line 5997 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000A96D4E  LOADLAZARUSBASEPACKAGE,  line 2213 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000A96BBF  LOADSTATICBASEPACKAGES,  line 2217 of 
>> ../packager/packagesystem.pas
>>    $0000000000AB6A56  LOADINSTALLEDPACKAGES,  line 3086 of 
>> ../packager/pkgmanager.pas
>>    $00000000004A9203  CREATE,  line 1590 of main.pp
>>    $000000000041F256  main,  line 140 of lazarus.pp
>>
>> I am not aware of using .fppkg specifically, and the file 
>> ~/.fppkg/config/default did indeed reference a invalid compiler (a 
>> test version I had installed at some point). I suspect a test for the 
>> compiler file existing needs adding somewhere.
>
> Thanks for the stacktrace, even with debug-info for fppkg! These tests 
> 'in the wild' help me a lot.
>
> Should be fixed. In FPC (added the check if the compiler exists) and 
> in Lazarus (do not choke on it when an exception occurs)
>
> Can you re-test?
>
> Regards,
>
> Joost.

That seems to have fixed the issue - restoring the config file with the 
invalid compiler present no longer causes an issue. (This is updating to 
both trunk fpc and lazarus).

Colin