FPC 3.0.0 RC2 Released!

[valdir.marcos]

Was FPC 3.0.0 tagged as final on 2015-11-12?

3.0.0 is tagged, and release should be near, very near.

After FPC 3.0.0 is released, Lazarus 1.4.6 + FPC 2.6.4 should be the last one of the Lazarus 1.4.x series?

[zeljko]

Yes

[Bitbeisser]

DateUtils LocalTimeToUniversal and UniversalTimeToLocal
FPC issue fixed in r31356 (FPC trunk).

Still problem in RC2, Hope you can merge it into 3.0 branch.

3.0 final was release on November 25th, 2015, why are you still posting abut RC2 issues? 

Ralf

[lazer]

While I can see a lot of reasons for limiting the number of variable conditions for working on trunk, this seems to be persistent beyond trunk.

Fedora 26 is currently distributing 3.0.2  that was announced as a "point release", whatever that term signifies.

I wish to install cross compiler capability for Lazarus and it would seem that the first step of that is to get a ccx set up for fpc.

It seems that I can not build trunk with the distro 3.0.2 , so I pulled 3.0.2 but that won't build with the distro fpc :

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. make all install FPC=/usr/bin/fpc OPT=-gl INSTALL_PREFIX=~
2. Makefile:2789: *** The only supported starting compiler version is 3.0.0. You are trying to build with 3.0.2..  Stop.

Having multiple versions and builds all floating around with their various library builds is key problem in synchronising everything and ensuring the right libs are used in each case.

All this jiving around with different versions and build requirements is making my head spin.

What versions of can I build with the distro 3.0.2 ,  or  do I have to try to install an earlier prebuilt pkg and ignore the distro altogether.

thx

[marcov]

While I can see a lot of reasons for limiting the number of variable conditions for working on trunk, this seems to be persistent beyond trunk.

Fedora 26 is currently distributing 3.0.2  that was announced as a "point release", whatever that term signifies.

A release that only changes after the (last) point. IOW, not a major release. Only the last release is guaranteed to build trunk, but in practice the last two releases are allowed. So 3.0.2 and 3.0.0 should be able to build trunk, and all releases should be able to build themselves.

So something seems messed or mixed up here. Either your sources are to old (check compiler/version.pas in doubt), or fedora ones are too heavily modified (which is strange, usually debian sources are more heavily patched than fedora)