[fpc-pascal] Re: problems compiling FPC

[Vincent Snijders]

2012/10/17 Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:
> D:\repo\fpc>make all
> makefile:2717: *** The only supported starting compiler version is 2.6.0.
> You are trying to build with 2.7.1. 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 .  Stop.
>
> + a ifndef crosscompile around the whole version check.
>
> I thought about the 2.6.0<->2.6.2 transition, but it is easy to temporarily
> wrap another version check around it for a few weeks. More work, but not a
> problem. (just needs documentation in rel_eng)

Alternatively, it could just be a warning. Then if it fails later, the
complete output will show the reason.

Then OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK is not necessary anymore.

Vincent