[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 11:39 AM, Sven Barth
<pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 25.07.2012 16:10, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Nico Erfurth<fpc at erfurth.eu>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 25.07.12 15:35, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> The last release was 2.6.0 and it's currently the only supported release
>>> as a bootstrap compiler. FPK recently added a patch to trunk which will
>>> break the build unless ppc1 is build with 2.6.0.
>>
>>
>> Hi Nico,
>>
>> The mode to compile a new version of compiler will be changed?
>> Where can I get more information about it?
>
>
> Nothing changes... ppc1 is one of the intermediate compilers (the first
> one) that is build when building trunk. You just need to make sure that you
> use 2.6.0 and nothing else to compile trunk. Once 2.6.2 is released that
> will be the newest supported version to compile trunk.

But _right now_ the 2.6.0 does not compile the trunk, I got the same errors...
Or I didn't understand what you mean, sorry.

Marcos Douglas