Not very up to date daily snapshot
lazarus / 64-FPC development

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explainedd · 2022-01-23 17:39

Hi!

I downloaded the daily source snapshot of the fixes tree (3.2.3
2022/Jan./23):
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/fixes/source/fpcbuild.zip

Because of this fix:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-
/commit/e9d318e7e2f772bf455a92461cd5c229e69858d8

Than I checked compiler/x86/aoptx86.pas

It seems to me the file is different from the one on github/gitlab.
The fix is missing.
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-
/blob/fixes_3_2/compiler/x86/aoptx86.pas

Will it be OK if I overwrite the content of the fpcbuild.zip with the
gitlab code?

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Thaddy · 2022-01-23 17:46

In/Out of principle: NO.
The first link is to main/trunk. (which you have to build from source
using 3.2.2 as the bootstrap compiler)
The second link is to the latest release, in this case 3.2.2.

Note that 3.2.2 also has a fixes branch but I do not know if that is
packaged.
3.2.2 itself is basically frozen and only receives updates in fixes.
It is a release.
Main/trunk is a development version and is a running target with
almost daily updates that may or may not end up in a release version.
It is also not recommended for normal users, advanced or not.

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ccrause · 2022-01-23 18:44

Quote from: explainedd on January 23, 2022, 06:39:45 pmHi!

I downloaded the daily source snapshot of the fixes tree (3.2.3
2022/Jan./23):
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/fixes/source/fpcbuild.zip

Where did you find the date for that snapshot?  I just downloaded it
and the latest date stamp in the compiler folder is 14 July 2021.  I
suspect that this snapshot is not being maintained since the move to
gitlab.

You can download a snapshot directly from gitlab: https://gitlab.com/f
reepascal.org/fpc/source/-/archive/fixes_3_2/source-fixes_3_2.zip

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explainedd · 2022-01-23 19:59

Thank You!

I checked the readme.rev file in the archive:

Free pascal source checkout of
https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_3_2 at Sun 23
Jan 2022 08:13:02 AM UTC

SVN...

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ccrause · 2022-01-23 20:26

Quote from: explainedd on January 23, 2022, 08:59:15 pmThank You!

I checked the readme.rev file in the archive:

Free pascal source checkout of
https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_3_2 at Sun 23
Jan 2022 08:13:02 AM UTC

SVN... 
Hmm, hopefully one of the maintainers get round to fixing the script
that generates that snapshot.

I thought the snapshot was just a zip of the source folders, but I
noticed there are install scripts too, so just pointing to the gitlab
download is not quite the same.

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explainedd · 2022-01-23 22:25

Quote from: ccrause on January 23, 2022, 09:26:13 pmI thought the
snapshot was just a zip of the source folders, but I noticed there are
install scripts too, so just pointing to the gitlab download is not
quite the same.

Got it. Thanks! A small tutorial:

1. Get The FPC Build Environment
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/build/-/tree/fixes_3_2
Download than extract it to somewhere.

2. Get The FPC Source
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/tree/fixes_3_2
Download than extract the content of the source-fixes_3_2 directory
into the build-fixes/fpcsrc directory of the Build Environment.

Finally build as usual.