Preparing FPC 3.2.4, point out road blocks now

[marcov]

I haven't heard any news about the release status for a while now.

[BSaidus]

Hello.
No news about the release !?

[lainz]

4 years

[PascalDragon]

Hello.
No news about the release !?

We are in preparation of the RC.

[Fred vS]

Hello.
No news about the release !?

We are in preparation of the RC.

Will there be a version for OpenBSD that works with their latest releases ?

[AlexTP]

Can I ask you to use _latest_ TRegExpr for the 3.2.4?
branch 'release_3_2_4' has too old regexpr.pas:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/blob/release_3_2_4-branch/packages/regexpr/src/regexpr.pas

  REVersionMajor = 0;
  REVersionMinor = 987;

while FPC Git main has

  REVersionMajor = 1;
  REVersionMinor = 182;

while last Sorokin's version
https://github.com/andgineer/TRegExpr/blob/master/src/regexpr.pas
has

  REVersionMajor = 1;
  REVersionMinor = 189;

[PascalDragon]

Hello.
No news about the release !?

We are in preparation of the RC.

Will there be a version for OpenBSD that works with their latest releases ?

Does main work on current OpenBSD? If so, can you point out the corresponding revisions that fixed this? They can be merged for after RC1 then if they aren't already...

Can I ask you to use _latest_ TRegExpr for the 3.2.4?

The RC is fixed. There will be no more changes to it. For post RC1 we'll have to see.

[Fred vS]

Does main work on current OpenBSD? If so, can you point out the corresponding revisions that fixed this? They can be merged for after RC1 then if they aren't already...

No, sadly main does not work on OpenBSD 75 and 76.
I posted that message to OpenBSD forum but they stop to give fpc since version 75 because of incompatibility:
https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=75175#post75175

There is long topic in Lazarus forum about the problem initially about Lazarus but it ended about fpc.
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,67536.0.html

There is also a fpcupdeluxe issue about this:
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/issues/722

[marcov]

There is long topic in Lazarus forum about the problem initially about Lazarus but it ended about fpc.

Don Alfredo seems to say in that thread that main works on 7.6.

[korba812]

Please consider adding COM-related patches to new release and, if possible, to fixes branch:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/41009
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/41005
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/commit/ac510d391f9d784a00275836715a25a41331460f

[Fred vS]

There is long topic in Lazarus forum about the problem initially about Lazarus but it ended about fpc.

Don Alfredo seems to say in that thread that main works on 7.6.

Sadly it is not working, see: https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/issues/722

[Thaddy]

Please consider adding COM-related patches to new release and, if possible, to fixes branch:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/41009
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/41005
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/commit/ac510d391f9d784a00275836715a25a41331460f

3.2.4 is about fixing bugs. The first two are not bugs.
Only the third one should be a candidate.
The other two ?
Did you test against Delphi?
Seems more a feature request and that won't happen in a point release.

[Thaddy]

Just release. Other than what is already known at least on my platforms ( quite a lot) I haven't found anything serious. Is the problem just release nanament?
Surely one minor platform can not Withhold a point release!

[Fred vS]

Some news from OpenBSD 76 front.
 
I installed a fresh release of OpenBSD 76,  from scratch (and so not a upgrade from 75).
The binary from there: https://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot/fixes_3_2/x86_64-openbsd/ 
(thanks to BSaidus) can compile and the apps are running. 
Only needed to create synlink from the needed libc.so.86.0 and libpthread,so.57.0 (not sure by memory about the version)  in fpc to the installed version in OpenBSD 76.

So to resume, it seems that OpenBSD 75 and his upgrade is not for fpc. (but OpenBSD 74 is ok)

But for compiling fpc himself on OpenBSD 76, using last fpupdeluxe or from gmake makefile from fpc, the compilation fails.
It would be interesting to know how those binaries were compiled from https://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot.

[BSaidus]

Some news from OpenBSD 76 front.
 
I installed a fresh release of OpenBSD 76,  from scratch (and so not a upgrade from 75).
The binary from there: https://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot/fixes_3_2/x86_64-openbsd/ 
(thanks to BSaidus) can compile and the apps are running. 
Only needed to create synlink from the needed libc.so.86.0 and libpthread,so.57.0 (not sure by memory about the version)  in fpc to the installed version in OpenBSD 76.

So to resume, it seems that OpenBSD 75 and his upgrade is not for fpc. (but OpenBSD 74 is ok)

But for compiling fpc himself on OpenBSD 76, using last fpupdeluxe or from gmake makefile from fpc, the compilation fails.
It would be interesting to know how those binaries were compiled from https://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot.

Thank you Fred for this post.
I think the maintainer of the builds is Pierre Muller (do not know his email), if you can get his email to contact it.
To the release team, Please consider updating the FPC for OpenBSD plateforme (i386, amd64).
Thank you.


Yes, I confim that the maintainer is Pierre Muller
https://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot/fixes_3_2/i386-openbsd/README-fpc-3.2.3.i386-openbsd.built.on.x86_64-linux