On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2011, at 16:43, Marcos Douglas wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> >> wrote: >>> >>> To be safe, you should always make distclean before updating from svn (even >>> without fpmake, since directories or units may get moved, which then won't >>> be cleaned anymore after the update). >> >> I never used distclean before updating from SVN and a never got problems. > > Then you got lucky (just like people can get lucky for a long time by > compiling svn trunk with previous svn trunk compilers instead of starting > with the latest release). Your checkout will however probably contain a lot > of outdated compiled units and directories that have been removed from svn > (but which weren't deleted in your local copy because they still contained > "units" directories). >
I use fixes_2_4, not trunk. But what you said doesn't matter what source we use, right? I always used these scripts to compile: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29 The Tortoise deletes many files when I'm updating the sources. I thought everything was working as it should. I can use this command? make distclean clean all Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
