Marco van de Voort wrote: > You are aware of the fact that the .o's belong to units too? > > Delphi .dcu = fpc .ppu + fpc .o !
Dumb me! Nope! And this was the problem. I just copied the new strutils.ppu file into /usr/lib/fpc/... NOT the strutils.o as well. So when the executable got "linked" it got linked with the wrong (old un-patched) code. It now works! Thanks.... Guess I will have to pay more attention to the compiler, as I tend to use the compiler as if it were "God", and any problems are obviously mine and mine alone. Lesson Learned! thank you all very very much. Is there a list of similar "patches" to bugs? I would like to nip the next one in the bud so to speak. :-) An Aside: This FPC has allowed me to ressurect so much of my source-code from the early days, of ARPANET, and FIDONET, that it has become a real big asset (not to mention a lot of fun)! I drooled when I saw all the new functions and procedures available.... Nifty stuff! What I have to keep in the back of my mind, is, that this is User-Supported.... and as such will have the occasional "bug". -- PGP Encrypted E-Mail Preferred Public Key at: http://www.tamara-b.org/~bob/pubkey.asc . _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
