[fpc-pascal] Re: problems compiling FPC

[Mattias Gaertner]

Graeme Geldenhuys <graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> hat am 17. Oktober 2012 um 17:05
geschrieben:
> On 2012-10-17 15:57, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> >
> > Alternatively, it could just be a warning. Then if it fails later, the
> > complete output will show the reason.
>
>
> I disagree. To prevent any strange side-effects (undefined behaviour),
> the version check should happen as early as possible - before any
> compiling commences.

I'm compiling fpc trunk with trunk/fixes/release since years. It works more
often than not.
I agree with Vincent that a warning would be enough.

Mattias