[fpc-devel] OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK catch 22?

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 02/03/2014 10:51, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said:
>> You have overriden the starting compiler versioncheck while using
>> starting compiler version 2.7.1. This situation is not supported and
>> strange things and errors may happen. Remove OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1 to
>> fix this.
>>
>> and stops.
> 
> It shouldn't stop in that case, maybe it stops for other reasons (make
> --debug ??) 
> 

Thanks, yes, I think you're right.
I had manually removed all ppu files in advance.

I updated the starting compiler to the current trunk revision, and ran
the same command. Same warning and nothing happened.
An explicit make clean did work followed by make all.

Sorry for the noise.

PS: Small typo patch ;)
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--- Makefile	(revision 26918)
+++ Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -2730,7 +2730,7 @@
 ifndef OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK
 	$(error The only supported starting compiler version is $(REQUIREDVERSION). You are trying to build with $(FPC_VERSION). If you are absolutely sure that the current compiler is built from the exact same version/revision, you can try to use OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1 to override )
 else
-	@$(ECHO) You have overriden the starting compiler versioncheck while using starting compiler version $(FPC_VERSION). This situation is not supported and strange things and errors may happen. Remove OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1 to fix this. 
+	@$(ECHO) You have overridden the starting compiler versioncheck while using starting compiler version $(FPC_VERSION). This situation is not supported and strange things and errors may happen. Remove OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1 to fix this. 
 endif
 endif
 endif