errors when compiling from trunk
lazarus / 13-General

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soerensen3 · 2020-03-02 23:15

Hi,

a lot of times when I try to compile Lazarus from trunk I encounter
errors. Is this normal behaviour or is it just my config files. I'm
using fpcupdeluxe.
I read it saves all changes made to the sources and reapplies them
again so i reverted all local changes but still could not compile.

This happens a lot so I always have to fall back to stable when it
happens, which again causes a lot of head aches with incompatible
packages.

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trev · 2020-03-03 00:40

I don't have any problem compiling Lazarus trunk ... very occasionally
the resulting Lazarus has issues.

I download the Lazarus source with svn:

Code: [Select]// If checking out the source the first time
cd /Users/trev/lazarus-src
svn checkout https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk .

// If updating after first checkout
cd /Users/trev/lazarus-src
svn up

and use the following script to compile it on macOS:

Code: [Select]#!/bin/sh
cd /Users/trev/lazarus-src
make distclean all LCL_PLATFORM=cocoa CPU_TARGET=x86_64 bigide

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marcov · 2020-03-03 11:57

Errors is not very descriptive, but if the error is an exception in
FPC with a traceback with "spill" in it, yes, I have that too from
time to time.

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soerensen3 · 2020-03-03 21:46

Ok i my fault. I meant compiler errors as in some function in some
unit changed and another unit is not changed accordingly.
So the question should rather be is it a common problem that a
revision is not compileable because of some patch or is the problem on
my side.

It usually happens when in fpcupdeluxe I update lazarus from trunk and
it does not compile. When I do it again another day it might work
again. Today it is working again with manually calling "make distclean
all". I can not reproduce it anymore.

@marcov: I had an exception like this only once.