Mattias Gaertner wrote:
* In either case, the IDE queries the ppc386 version using -iV.
That is wrong, it should query fpc for that.
When is that wrong?
For one thing:
When the architecture-specific compiler has a different version
than the 'default' one, the results may differ...
Yes.
A {$IFDEF VER2_6_2} depends on the ppcxxx version, does it not?
OK, but the basic point that I was trying to get confirmation of was
that with the exception of the one place that the IDE specifies -V,
everything else is based on the properties of ppcxxx which are queried
(via fpc) rather than being assumed. That includes $(FPCVER).
If there are later explicit overrides of unit directories etc., they
don't affect $(FPCVER), {$IFDEF VERxxx} and so on. Whether they are a
good idea is a different issue.
I'd throw in in case anybody's interested that I hacked together a
script which looked at an installed Lazarus instance and listed what
version of FPC had apparently been used so that I could regenerate it
from source. I suggest that that might be useful to have in --version
output.
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