[fpc-devel]'= type pointer' doesn't work in package?

[Florian Klaempfl]

andrew johnson wrote:
> I was trying to get the gtk2 headers into a normal fpc package format
> and discovered that while for instance glib2 will compile with no issue
> with fpc directly, when compiled as a package within an fpc 1.0.7
> tree(from yesterday), it raises an error "cannot create unique type from
> this type" and then a compiler panic 99999 on 
> 
>    PGMemChunk = type pointer; // internal structure of gmem.c
>    PGAllocator = type pointer; // internal structure of gmem.c
> 
> this happens anywhere in the gtk2 code where '= type pointer' is used.
> commenting out the 'type' everything works.
> 
> any ideas why? is this a bug with a flag passed to packages?
> 
 > I have not tried this with 1.1 yet.

IIRC "cannot create unique type from this type" is a 1.1 message?