[fpc-devel] FPC 2.7.1 - variant.inc(82, 10) Error: Illegal type conversion: "Text" to "TextRec"

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said:
> 
> I would like to report some errors when I tried to compile the FPC
> 2.7.1 at revision 21969 (I am using Windows).

First step in bootstrapping problems, did you check that you started with
the last release as starting compiler?
 
> [...]
> make[6]: Entering directory `W:/md/dev/freepascal/compiler/2.7.1/rtl'
> make -C win32 all
> make[7]: Entering directory `W:/md/dev/freepascal/compiler/2.7.1/rtl/win32'
> W:/md/dev/freepascal/binutils/2.7.1/i386-win32/gmkdir.exe -p W:/md/dev/freepasca
> l/compiler/2.7.1/rtl/units/i386-win32
> W:/md/dev/freepascal/binutils/ppc386.2_7.exe -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fi../inc -Fi../i386
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^