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Greetings,

If you are working in Linux please note that you need a recent version of the FPC 1.0.5 compiler to build some of Lazarus. An binary RPM and source RPM is available. Please see the Welcome page of the web site for URL's.

Eric Lai wrote

but this is not a offical release of the compiler and it really doesn't make sense in using a not stable compiler in a even less stable IDE.

We don't have a choice in the matter. The 1.0.4 release of the compiler has some bugs and missing features that were not made available until the 1.0.5 version. These are items required to build the standard features into the IDE.

As to stability, the 1.0.5 is a stable version of the compiler. The reason they aren't actually making say 1.0.6 release is because the are moving onto the 1.1/1.2 level of the compiler which has some significant rewrites and processes.

Granted the IDE is not yet very stable but if we were not using 1.0.5 it wouldn't even be possible. :-)

As soon as the 1.1 or 1.2 (I'm not sure which it will be) is stable and released we will be using that for development.

you wrote

but were can i download a full package of the FPC 1.05

There is no full package of 1.0.5. The odd patch levels are the cvs versions between a release. The next release is 1.0.6.

does that mean i have to compile it myself??
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Hi

I have the problem, that I can't install the RPM. I get the following error:

linuxcvs:/Progs # rpm -U fpc-1.0.5-laz.20010401.i386.rpm only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: fpc-1.0.5-laz.20010401.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Can you use to build the RPM an older version, because not everyone has a system with the newest rpm-program.

cu Jens

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Am 4/2/01, 10:22:10 AM, schrieb "Marc Weustink"
zum Thema RE: [lazarus] Latest 1.0.5 version of compiler:

+ From: Jens Arm

+ Hi
+
+
+ I have the problem, that I can't install the RPM. I get the following
+ error:
+
+ linuxcvs:/Progs # rpm -U fpc-1.0.5-laz.20010401.i386.rpm
+ only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this
+ version of RPM
+ error: fpc-1.0.5-laz.20010401.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Woops

+ Can you use to build the RPM an older version, because not
+ everyone has a system with the newest rpm-program.

Didn't think of that. Indeed the box I build this on is pretty up to date (I needed the latest clibs for the latest ddd)

I'll try to install an older rpm (or find something to build older rpms)

Marc

It is not so big problem as smb thinks. Yesterday I downloaded a srpm, but I had no idea that it was from 4th version. But as for srpm, you need only correct version in it. Third or forth byte is 04H, if you correct it to 03H, you'll be able to install .tgz file. This trick does not seems to work with more difficult packages (I don't think that it will work with binary rpm)

+ does that mean i have to compile it myself??

If you have a platform other than Linux.... Yes (or Michael has already build a win32 version) otherwise use the links given on the site:

ftp://lazarus.freepascal.org/lazarus/fpc-1.0.5-laz.20010401.i386.rpm ftp://lazarus.freepascal.org/lazarus/fpc-1.0.5-laz.20010401.src.rpm

Marc