Thanks Bigchimp,
That was indeed what I was doing wrong (sheesh, how did I miss that). Although I am only able to set one variable at a time on the command line it seems so I am unable to have a "trunk" and a "current release" both installed, sharing common directory structure(can only set fpcURL iow).
Also setting the variable in the fpcup.ini and specifying the configfile=fpcup.ini isn't working either. This would be the preferable way I would think and just keep several .ini files. Seems strange that this is not working. Doesn't the fpcup.exe use the fpcup.ini as it's way of setting the "stock" setup? According to the help file the fpcup.ini file is used by default (which I have modified with settings). This is not working and reverts to the standard "branches/fixes_2.6" config.
My work around was to simply start from scratch and just set the fpcURL variable from the command line to the "trunk" version. All goes well with the downloading, but something goes wrong with the compiling. Apparently the fpc.exe is not compiling. Stange thing is that the fp.exe (freepascal GUI) is compiling fine, just not the fpc.exe (?).
Thanks in advance.
Well anyway here is a dump of the log:
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4/16/2012 7:57:08: fpcup started.
Bootstrap compiler dir: C:\development\fpcbootstrap\
FPC URL: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk
FPC options:
FPC directory: C:\development\fpc
Make/binutils path: C:\development\fpcbootstrap\
External program path: C:\development\fpcbootstrap\;C:\development\fpcbootstrap\;C:\development\fpcbootstrap\svn\;C:\development\fpc\bin\i386-win32
opment\fpcbootstrap\
External progError running fpcup. Technical details: error executing sequence fpc; line: 4, param: FPC
Error running fpcup. Technical details: error executing sequence DefaultWin32; line: 3, param: fpc
4/16/2012 8:33:22: fpcup finished.
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