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FPC 2.6.2 released (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 14.03.2013, 17:16

> Will have to make newer FDNPKG one of these days.

TODO (though I wonder if waiting until 2.7.0 would be better).

> Seems installer was updated (and now w/ srcs) but haven't tested whether it
> fixes the FAT32 bug or not.

Still haven't tried installing "full" (with or without DOSLFN) yet.

> IDE shelling out proxy bug seems fixed, but something else weird is going
> on. Seems restarting the IDE fails on second try. Reinstalling [sic] fixes
> it for one more run, but .... Not sure what's going on here.

Just running and aborting INSTALL.EXE seems to "fix" FP.EXE for one instance, but then it borks again after it runs. At one run, I noticed that EAX had the ASCII value of "ENIL" ("LINE" backwards), but that's as close a guess (and useless) as I can gather right now. (I suppose running external GDB on it should work???)

Various other minor issues (mostly versions, e.g. FP.EXE uses GDB 7.3 internally but FPC still ships 6.11 externally too, which is probably a pain for mirroring huge sources, latest DJGPP has 7.5.1).

> All I see are snapshots, e.g. last one (GO32V2, at least) is
> on FPC FTP dated from January 17, 2013.

Newest GO32V2 snapshot is partially truncated / incomplete (no CDS in ZIP), so I couldn't test.

Scott Moore's website is back online (thankfully). I was worried there for a while. (I really need to finally package up P5 for DJGPP on iBiblio, presumably without the other OS cruft.)

Mirrored old LZMA 4.42 conversion to FPC (and my small patch) to iBiblio. Also mirrored some other stuff (FH's newdelay.pas, CB's txtfiles, your FPC-patched txtfiles). Always random other stuff to possibly mirror, but I don't know the licensing (doh), which is always such an annoying obstacle. :-/

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 26.02.2013, 10:09 (Announce)
  • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 27.02.2013, 10:49
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 28.02.2013, 13:46
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 28.02.2013, 20:43
        • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 02.03.2013, 18:57
          • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 03.03.2013, 00:21
            • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 03.03.2013, 02:36
              • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 04.03.2013, 22:23
          • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 14.03.2013, 17:16
            • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 28.03.2013, 00:35
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - rr, 03.03.2013, 21:08
  • FPC 2.6.2 released - Laaca, 18.03.2013, 12:00
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 19.03.2013, 00:08
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Arjay, 19.03.2013, 01:48
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Laaca, 19.03.2013, 11:40
        • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 21.03.2013, 17:26