"FPC version" in "About Lazarus" screen
lazarus / 3-General

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thierrybo · 2010-04-16 11:27

Hi,

just a small question. I use a Lazarus setup where I build both
lazarus AND freepascal from their sources. I do this since some weeks
and it "seems" to works fine, but I realized the FPC version in
Lazarus about screen still displays "2.4.1".

I believe   I well understood what I read in "buildfaq", and when I
read Lazarus build messages I see clearly the path to my freepascal
2.5.1, so I wonder what is going wrong.

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thierrybo · 2010-04-16 12:47

I found the reason but not why. For an unexplained  reason, the old
lazarus.exe is not replaced with lazarus.new.exe, so I was running the
old version each time.

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Leledumbo · 2010-04-19 03:41

Don't run lazarus.exe directly, run through startlazarus.exe. It's its
responsibility to rename lazarus.exe to lazarus.old.exe before
renaming lazarus.new.exe to lazarus.exe.