[lazarus] Longstring issue w/Lazarus

[Payne Thomas E CNIN]

I compiled and ran the newlaz from ftp://ftp.miraclec.com/lazarus this
afternoon.  It failed compile in stdcontrols lines 340,341,342.  I commented
these lines out and it compiled OK and ran.  There were evident problem with
string in the menus and failed gtk_signal_... calls.

To trace down the menu anomoly, I chose VIEW | Object Inspector init.

main.pp (287) itmViewInspector.Caption := 'Object Inspection';
                     itmViewInspector = TmenuItem
menus.pp (23) TMenuItem = class(TWinControl)
controls.pp(121) TWinControl = class(TControl)
controls.pp(68) TControl = class(TComponent)
                         private
                             FCaption : TCaption
                         public
                             property Caption:TCaption read GetText write
SetTExt;
vclglobals.pp (64) TCaption = string;

Well that was not so bad.  Something MVC said about long/short strings and
{H+} was in the back of my mind so I placed a {$H+} in vclglobals after
{$mode objfcl} and recompiled...

Assembling lazarus
Linking ./lazarus
5822 Lines compiled, 3.0 sec
Panic : Internal compiler error, exiting.
Fatal: Internal error 9999
make: *** [lazarus] Error 1
[root at a202-073 newlaz]#

Mind you, this is the only change I made after a successful compie before.
Does this mean something to the gurus?

Tom