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

[Jonas Maebe]

Marcos Douglas wrote on Wed, 25 Jul 2012:

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

Why? This is at least the fourth time that you encountered such a  
build problem because you did not start building with the latest  
release, and asked here what the problem was, and every time the  
answer is "always start your build using the latest release". See all  
the links I posted last time:  
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org/msg25866.html


Jonas