svn 1645

FE. -FU/Developer/Source/Compilers/FPC/rtl/units/x86_64-linux -Cg -dx86_64 -dRELEASE ../objpas/fgl.pp
fgl.pp(128,38) Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

This has been stopping the build process for a few days now. Anyone know about it or is this my problem? I tried deleting all FPC units and re-checked out from SVN but still same error.

Thanks.

http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2010-November/023155.html (and the rest of the thread).

Jonas

Hi Jonas,

I use svn/trunk to build FPC. I bootstrapped a a few months ago Ubuntu 10.10 betas/release but I've been using 2.5.1 for over a year now seeded with what ever came with Ubuntu 10.10 distro (But that was months ago).

Presently I don't how I'm not using 2.5.1 to build current FPC but there maybe remnants of Ubuntu's deb install somewhere in links, but why all of a sudden this problem?

When I type fpc from any path I get

Free Pascal Compiler version 2.5.1 [2010/11/29] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2010 by Florian Klaempfl
/usr/lib/fpc/2.5.1/ppcx64 [options] <inputfile> [options]

I'll go read that thread...

Bootstrapping from Ubuntu 10.10 and rebuilding from SVN got past the problem. I guess that an evolutionary dead end with some bad revision caused this problem...

Anyways. I'm back up and running.