On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:48:39 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > The other problem I have, is duplication. Why does Lazarus have a
> > > copy of the ptopu.pp unit?
> >
> > Because the .ppu file is not part of fpc 2.0.4 and the ptopu.pp are
> > different.
>
> I'm not sure understand your answer about the .ppu file? Do you mean
> the ptopu.ppu file isn't with all the other .ppu files in the
> /lib/fpc/units directory, so the seach path is a problem? Maybe they
> (FPC developers) can modify the makefile or something so the compiled
> units from the /utils path could be used more easily.
>
> > > Yes there are some minor changes, but that is
> > > something that should rather go to the FPC code as well.
> >
> > Minor? I got a quite big diff.
>
> Not in my diff! A block of enums where arranged one per line so
> comments could be added next to them. Then some other minor change was
> four 'var' parameters changed to 'out' parameters.
> Another two other changes just remove compiler warnings. I did a diff
> against a two week old FPC (svn revision).
Maybe a fpc 2.3.1 ?
I diffed with fpc 2.0.5.
> > > Can Lazarus find/reference units in the FPC's /utils directory?
> >
> > Sure. Add $(FPCSrcDir)/utils/ to the unit path.
>
> So adding that to the prettyformat package, it should work even if the
> ptopu.ppu isn't in the general FPC units/ directory.
It will work *only* because there is no ptopu.ppu installed by
Free Pascal.
As soon as Free Pascal installs the ptopu.ppu the IDE will warn for
ambigious units.
> That means there
> is no need to have a duplicate ptopu.pp unit, right?
You need to find a solution for fpc 2.0.4 and 2.3.x.
Mattias
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