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

[Sven Barth]

Am 25.07.2012 16:48, schrieb 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.

You didn't write that you used 2.6.0. In fact your mail above (with 
Jonas' arrows below) suggests that you used a 2.7.1 compiler.

Regards,
Sven