i'm forwarding the following conversation to this list on request... the problem was lack of disk space and this was discovered when the linker was linking a newly built Lazarus... nothing in the error indicated a drive space problem...
the following is discussion between myself and Mattias...
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] error compiling latest SVN laz...
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:32:39 +0200
From: Mattias Gaertner
Reply-To: Lazarus mailing list
To:
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:14:19 -0400
waldo kitty wrote:
>[...]
> >> Compiling resource ..\units\i386-win32\lazarus.or
> >> Linking ..\lazarus.exe
> >> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> >> An unhandled exception occurred at $00420D86 :
> >> Exception : Unknown Run-Time error : 112
> >>[...]
> > You encountered a fpc bug.
> [...]
> > Build lazarus clean again. If the same bug happens, do a normal build.
>
> here's my makelaz.bat...
>
> @echo on
> set myversion=2.4.5
> set mypath=c:\freepascal\fpc\%myversion%
> set mybinutils=c:\freepascal\binutils
> set PATH=%mybinutils%\i386-win32;%mypath%\bin\i386-win32;%PATH%
> cd c:\freepascal\laz
> make clean all OPT="-glw2"
> cd \freepascal
>
> what's a normal build??
make OPT="-glw2"
> > If this does not work: try another version of fpc.
>
> this might have been a drive space problem... i got down to less than 2M
> available and discovered it after running into this problem... i shall try the
> above .bat again and see what happens...
>
> i guess i should also report this over on fpc-devel??
Yes. Maybe the compiler can give a nicer error message for no free disk
space.
Mattias
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