[fpc-pascal] text.inc(1955, 20) Error: identifier idents no member "CodePage"

[Tomas Hajny]

On Wed, October 26, 2011 14:25, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 26 October 2011 14:19, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> Lol. Â Maybe it's time you create a bot that catches these emails and
>> respond
>> to them automatically :)
>
> Maybe the makefile can be amended to check the version number of the
> FPC being used. If you are trying to compile Trunk, and the FPC
> version you want to use is not the last known released version, give a
> error indicating the problem, and refuse to compile Trunk.
>
> This should prevent these type message, which seem to appear quite
> frequent.

Possibly. However:

1) This means (at least) one more place where the latest release version
needs to be maintained in the Makefiles.

2) Compiling with a recent trunk version may work under certain
circumstances. The current situation is that if it doesn't work, the user
should resort to the latest release, but he may use something different as
long as it works OK for him. The check in the makefile would disallow
using a newer version in all cases which may not be wanted (especially in
cases when the last release was not provided for certain platform, you'd
need to always start by cross-compilation - imagine a person trying to
revive support for some platform doing this multiple times per day)...

Tomas