"FPC version" in "About Lazarus" screen

[thierrybo]

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.

[thierrybo]

 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.

[Leledumbo]

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.