[fpc-pascal] Building latest SVN

[Jonas Maebe]

On 23 Sep 2008, at 17:01, Roland Turcan wrote:

> It stops with message:
>
>> systemh.inc(84,2) Error: User defined: Building trunk is only
>> supported when using the latest release as a starting compiler.
>
> but it is uncomfortable to rollback to latest release to build up
> latest SVN.

You don't have to rollback. You can have trunk and the latest release  
installed in parallel.

> There must be "nicer" way, but how.

It often, but not always, depends on how people introduce new features  
in trunk (using a new internal conditional define in which case  
everything keeps working usually, or using a version check in which  
case you have to bootstrap using the previous release).

> PS: What is the reason to show this error?

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12168


Jonas