[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 11:55 AM, Sven Barth
<pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

First I tried 2.7.1 but after read your mail, I tried to compile using
2.6.1 but got the same errors... and Jonas (always!) said to use the
last version of trunik, ie, 2.7.1 version, not 2.6.0 or 2.6.1.

Marcos Douglas