Hi,

I've got some funny problem here. The program compiled well with fpc up to version 1.9.4. I haven't touched it for a while and now it fails with fpc 2.0.2.

The source snippet in queston is:

function TStorable.generateID: integer;
begin
//writeln(GetEpochTime); does not work anymore
result := sysutils.GetEpochTime(); // does not work either
//result := fpTime; // this works!
end;

As you can see I've tried prefixing with the correct unit specifier but it fails:

CommonTypes.pp(207,21) Error: Identifier not found "GetEpochTime"

Checking the source and even grep'ping and strings'ing sysutils.ppu and sysutils.o the function GetEpochTime is there:

$ grep GetEpochTime /home/marc/fpc-2.0.2/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-freebsd/rtl/sysutils.ppu
Binary file /home/marc/fpc-2.0.2/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-freebsd/rtl/sysutils.ppu matches

But the compiler doesn't find it:

from fpc ... -vt
...
PPU Loading /home/marc/fpc-2.0.2/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-freebsd/rtl/sysutils.ppu ...

I'm stuck, what is missing here or how can I go on debugging the problem?

TIA,
Marc

Nothing is missing. getepochtime is present in the Sysutils unit, but is not exposed, as it's not cross platform. You should be using fptime.

Michael.

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/oldlinux/getepochtime.html

Micha

I've got some funny problem here. The program compiled well with fpc up to version 1.9.4. I haven't touched it for a while and now it fails with fpc 2.0.2.

Afaik there was only a *nix implementation and that was already covered by the Unix (fp)time function, so it got cleaned up in 2.0 in the cleanup's after the implementation of the Exec* functions.

I'm stuck, what is missing here or how can I go on debugging the problem?

Nothing, just use fptime.

He uses FreeBSD.

Ah right, this was apparent from the unit path.

Micha

Not that I'd recommend oldlinux to linux/x86 users though. It was really only meant to recompile unmaintained old stuff for the 1->2 transition.

IMHO we can disable it for 2.2 too.

Far more simple than I thought, I had started fiddling paths and the like ... :)

Thanks for all helping hands,
Marc