[Lazarus] RE : Error compiling trunk version 34361 on win64

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:

>> Latest trunk fails on 2.7.1. Trunk used to work on 2.7.1 (e.g. 32573).
>> That's a trifle inconvenient on a platform where there have been CG
>> fixes since 2.4/2.6.
>>
> 
> It does not fail, because otherwise the 2.7.1 snapshots in
> ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/ would not have been 
> created (also I tested it manually on my system). You need to use at 
> least revision 19852 of FPC otherwise the compilation will indeed fail. 
> [and if you compile Lazarus on a 64-bit system with a 64-bit compiler 
> that was created using a 32-bit compiler you need to pay attention to 
> this bug: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20947 ]

OK, but I'm simultaneously trying to find out why I can't compile 2.7.1 
on SPARC Solaris, and am not finding the overall combination easy. More 
on that one elsewhere, although I'm up to my eyes in "holiday" scheduled 
maintenance at the moment.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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