[fpc-pascal] Re: problems compiling FPC

[Sven Barth]

On 30.10.2012 16:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> hat am 30. Oktober 2012 um 14:44
>> geschrieben:
>>
>>>  On 17 Oct 2012, at 16:52, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      > > New text:
>>>>      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.
>>>>
>>>>  >
>>>  And as the core developers saw today, even that is not clear enough
>>> apparently:  http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23245
>>> <http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23245> (that person even
>>> manually
>>> edited the makefile and replaced the 2.6.0 with 2.7.1 trying to get
>>> around the
>>> check).
>
> I really don't like making this comment, but looking at the bug report
> (and checking the current Makefile)
>
>  > You try to build with 2.6.1.
>
> That could very easily be misread as "You should try to build with
> 2.6.1", correct idiomatic English would be "You are trying to build with
> 2.6.1.", or to rub their nose in it "You are trying to build with 2.6.1,
> which is not supported.".
>

The whole purpose of the check was to "rub their nose in it"... but if 
people try to circumvent the check by editing the Makefile (and not even 
reading the message correctly to know how to circumvent it correctly) 
and THEN even raising a bug report about this then what can help?!

Regards,
Sven