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Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 31.03.2020, 19:37

> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/3.2.0-rc1/i386-go32v2/

1). IDEDOS.ZIP seems corrupted (no CDS found in .ZIP).
Is this a duplicate (or newer?) version of UIDEDOS.ZIP?
But INSTALL.DAT only mentions IDEDOS.ZIP.

2). INSTALL.DAT still uses ~G~ twice (General, Go32v2 packages 2nd part)
workaround: load mouse driver (Ctrl-Tab doesn't work??)

3). BASEDOS.ZIP ("basic system") says it needs LFNs
("required", but deselected by default when DOSLFN not loaded).

>unzip -l basedos.zip | awk "$2~/2020$/{sub(\".*/\",\"\",$4);\
if(length($4)>12)print $4}"


    character.ppu       cp8859_10.ppu cp8859_11.ppu   cp8859_13.ppu
    cp8859_14.ppu       cp8859_15.ppu cp8859_16.ppu   fpwidestring.o
    fpwidestring.ppu    unicodedata.o unicodedata.ppu unicodenumtable.o
    unicodenumtable.ppu


Some of these will resolve to the same filename. DOSCHK (see DJGPP
mirrors) is your friend. (Or are we requiring LFNs now? Or only
required for "full" installs?)

So, after install, apparently \FPC\UNITS\GO32V2\RTL\cp8859_1.o
(according to its CRC32) is actually CP8859_16.O ! So it's
overwriting the original file (CRC32 = 0x8ED94CDF). This may
not be the end of the world, but it's still wrong.

4). INSTALL.EXE seems to hang after a few (incomplete) runs
(needing Ctrl-C to abort).
(IIRC, it had this problem once before. I forget the workaround
to restart it successfully.)


So I just kept defaults and installed everything (but manually
selected BASEDOS.ZIP since SFNs only, for now).


5). Trying to run "gdb --version" crashes (Page fault, reg dump).
No idea why.

6). Compiling some simple programs does still work, and they run okay.

Complete thread:

• Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Laaca, 30.03.2020, 20:41 (Announce)
  • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - marcov, 31.03.2020, 10:00
  • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Rugxulo, 31.03.2020, 19:37
    • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Laaca, 01.04.2020, 23:34
      • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - RayeR, 02.04.2020, 14:57
      • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - marcov, 03.04.2020, 14:53
        • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Rugxulo, 12.04.2020, 14:10
          • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Laaca, 12.04.2020, 16:41
            • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Laaca, 25.04.2020, 19:01
              • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - marcov, 26.04.2020, 17:54
                • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Rugxulo, 29.04.2020, 09:22
                • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - Laaca, 29.04.2020, 23:03
                  • Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate - marcov, 30.04.2020, 19:48
                    • Other bug - Laaca, 14.05.2020, 10:08
                      • Other bug - Laaca, 14.05.2020, 20:38
                        • Other bug - Laaca, 20.05.2020, 22:49
                          • Other bug - marcov, 22.05.2020, 19:16