[fpc-devel] replacement for msgdif utility

2009-01-28 Thread Schindler Karl-Michael
Hi, When updating the error message file and using the msgdif utility, I remembered that a new utility for working on error message files was mentioned in the mailing list or the irc channel, or so. However, searching and browsing (for example the mailing lists and irc channel logs) did n

[fpc-devel] fpmake / fppkg (are great!)

2009-01-28 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Joost van der Sluis wrote: > With this release we also want to test our new packaging-system. After > installing the package manager (fppkg) can be called from the > command-line. For now only the 'lnet' package is available for > installation through the package system. When all goes well it could

Re: [fpc-devel] fpmake / fppkg (are great!)

2009-01-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: > Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > With this release we also want to test our new packaging-system. After > > installing the package manager (fppkg) can be called from the > > command-line. For now only the 'lnet' package is available for > > install

Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.2.4rc1 released

2009-01-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I think I found a possible issue with 2.2.4. I can not recall experiencing this issue under 2.2.3 (from mid December 2008). I have data (tax rates) stored in a Firebird 2.1 database. The field storing the rate is defined as Numeric(3,3). I use SqlDB (via tiOPF) to retrieve the data. That specific

Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.2.4rc1 released

2009-01-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > lData.Rate:= Query.FieldAsFloat['TAXRATE']; FieldAsFloat translates to the underlying call to SqlDB as follows function TtiQueryDataset.GetFieldAsFloat(const AName: string): extended; begin Result := FDataset.FieldByName(A

[fpc-devel] valgrind, parsing sym from exe

2009-01-28 Thread Martin Friebe
Hi, I am trying to use Valgrind on a executable build with fpc. I get the following error (the error was while using callgrind, with verbose output) ==18293== Reading syms from /data/OTHER/laz_trnc/lazarus (0x8048000) @@ unlikely looking definition in unparsed remains ";" @@ expected ',' at s