[fpc-pascal] systemh.inc(117, 16) Error: Duplicate identifier "FarPointer"

[waldo kitty]

On 5/8/2013 12:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> waldo kitty wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
>> perhaps the message is too long and too informative? maybe something like a
>> bikini (short and to the point) would be better?
>>
>> eg : Makefile:2704: *** WRONG COMPILER VERSION (2.7.1)! You MUST use 2.6.0 to
>> compile with. Other compiler versions are not supported! (You might try
>> "OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1" but NO SUPPORT is given for this if it fails!)
>
> I'd suggest that anything like that would be counterproductive, since it implies
> that prompt support will be given for things that are even dumber- like trying
> to compile FPC using Delphi :-)

ok... so then, "but NO SUPPORT is given OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK usage!)"

i'm guessing that last section is what you were looking at as giving an 
implication? frankly, it took me several minutes to come up with that and i 
thought it pretty clear and to the point about the wrong compiler version... i 
also wanted to retain the part about OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK but make it clear that 
no support would be given for its use...

i did even have "2.6.0 or 2.6.2" but decided that was not good even though it 
may be supported...

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