On 10/24/2018 11:54 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:45 PM Brian via Lazarus > <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: >> Well, here's an example for you of why people may refuse to use SVN. >> >> I downloaded the sources via svn and built Lazarus, no problem in that >> step. >> >> Then I ran V2.0 and started installing some packages I use. >> >> I got the following error on rebuilding Lazarus, line 1134 of >> IBCustomDataSet, which is >> >> " Result := ValidUTF8String(TextToSingleLine(Result))" >> >> The error message was "Identifier not found, ValidUTF8String". > > Where did you find IBCustomDataSet? I don't find it in FPC or Lazarus sources. > ValidUTF8String was deprecated in Lazarus 1.7, then removed in 1.9 and thus > 2.0. > This is part of the normal deprecation / removal cycle, not related to > using SVN. >
I allowed 2.0 to upgrade my 1.8.4 configuration, could that have been the mistake? I'm not sure where IBCustomDataSet came from. > Is there ValidUTF8String in Delphi? I don't know. This is a Xubuntu 18.04 box, I haven't used Delphi since Delphi 7. > In that case it should be restored > preferably into the same unit Delphi has it. > Again this is not related to using SVN. > Maybe not, but my point is that I was running the 1.8.4 .DEBs from SourceForge with no problems. I was a research chemist who had to teach himself how to program, not a computer scientist, and errors from deep inside code libraries tend to throw me, especially when it's object oriented code (yes, I'm that old). Anyway, I started uninstalling packages, and I do now have everything building correctly. Now it's just a case of finding out what I need to try to put back in again. Brian. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
