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

[ik]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Am 24.08.2012 21:21 schrieb "Jonas Maebe" <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>
> >
> >
> > On 24 Aug 2012, at 20:52, ik wrote:
> >
> > > For two weeks now, I have the following error message with FPC 2.7.1:
> > > variant.inc(82,10) Error: Illegal type conversion: "Text" to "TextRec"
> > >
> > > I'm currently on r22233. Arch Linux 64 bit.
> > > The last build of FPC 2.7.1 I made was:
> > > Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2012/08/04] for x86_64
> > >
> > > Is it something with my old build, or is it an known issue that have
> not
> > > been fixed yet ?
> >
> > It is something with your old build, namely the fact that it is not the
> latest release (2.6.0 at this time). Building svn versions is only
> supported if your starting compiler is the latest release.
>
> Sometimes I wonder if we should put this on some prominent place on the
> website...
>
Amm, it's a big problem.

You are saying that the development version can not compile itself.
And I can never test it myself, or use tools such as development version of
Lazarus for example, that should use it.


> Regards,
> Sven
>
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