Hi all,
Since it seems I have some kind of compatibility problem preventing my
using mantis, I'm going to describe what seems at least a VERY
misleading error message, if not actually a bug. Hopefully someone
associated with the software will notice it.
I'm using Lazarus 64-bit v 0.9.28.2-0 beta (so it says) and FPC 2.2.4
under Kubuntu 9.1, BTW. I know it's old, but that's apparently the
latest that has been packaged for 64-bit Kubuntu.
I should also say that I started with computers in the mid-1970s, so I
have some archaic ways of doing things. :) One of those is putting an
include file with some global definitions in ALL of my source units,
and I include it with an absolute path,
/home/brian/sources/Lazarus/defines.inc to be exact.
I changed a $define in there a few days ago, and when I next compiled
the project, I got a dialog pop up stating that the include file
couldn't be found. Huh? *Of course* it was there...
After much head-scratching, I looked carefully through the file, and
found that I must have used the scroll wheel on my mouse, because
pasted in the middle of the include file was a chunk of obviously
invalid text (the scroll wheel acts as the center button, and if I
press rather than scroll, it does a 'paste').
I deleted the text, and all was back to normal, but that's the
problem. An obvious syntax error in an include file, instead of
generating an error, pops up a dialog saying that there's no such
include file. In my case, it looked to the compiler like an identifier
when 'interface' was expected. It would be an improvement to have no
pop-up dialog at all, then I would have looked at the underlying
messages, and found the syntax error.
Brian.
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