On 17-10-2012 12:49, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> On 2012-10-17 10:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>> Some slack would be desirable: stable is 2.6.0 but there are known >>> issues which are fixed by 2.6.1. >> >> Nope, the FPC developers made the rules quite clear! Not even the fixes >> branch is guaranteed to compile FPC Trunk. ONLY the last released FPC is >> guaranteed. I have even stumbled over this too, where the fixes branch >> couldn't compile FPC Trunk, but the latest released version could. > > Graeme, I know what policy is. However I'd point out that right now you > /need/ 2.6.1 to compile FPC for SPARC due to code generation issues, and > there have previously been similar problems with ARM while FP stuff was > work-in-progress. > > So saying "if it won't compile with stable then sod off" isn't helpful.
Mark, I understand what you mean. Regardless of the way Graeme put his point, I think having: - a rough check on latest stable compiler - a way to force the makefile to override the check for people who need this such as SPARC users) will lessen the amount of problems significantly Thanks, Reinier _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
