On 26 Oct 2011, at 14:25, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Maybe the makefile can be amended to check the version number of the FPC being used. If you are trying to compile Trunk, and the FPC version you want to use is not the last known released version, give a error indicating the problem, and refuse to compile Trunk.
This would require at least an exception for cross-architecture compiling, because that should always be started with a native compiler compiled from the same code base (a cross-build does not perform a full cycle, which is required for certain kinds compiler of changes to fully propagate in case we have to work around compiler bugs in earlier versions that are triggered by newly added compiler code).
There's also the case where a platform is new and no compiler binary from the previous release exists nor can be created, in which case people often prefer to use that binary as much as possible rather than first cross-compiling one on another platform every time. Probably at least a Makefile flag should be added that can be used to override the check if you think you know what you are doing.
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