[fpc-pascal] variant.inc(82, 10) Error: Illegal type conversion: "Text" to "TextRec"

[Jonas Maebe]

On 24 Aug 2012, at 20:52, ik wrote:

> For two weeks now, I have the following error message with FPC 2.7.1:
> variant.inc(82,10) Error: Illegal type conversion: "Text" to "TextRec"
> 
> I'm currently on r22233. Arch Linux 64 bit.
> The last build of FPC 2.7.1 I made was:
> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2012/08/04] for x86_64
> 
> Is it something with my old build, or is it an known issue that have not
> been fixed yet ?

It is something with your old build, namely the fact that it is not the latest release (2.6.0 at this time). Building svn versions is only supported if your starting compiler is the latest release.


Jonas