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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> 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
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, I tried using a ppc386 compiled in 07/18/2012.

Marcos Douglas