2011/8/24 Tomas Hajny <[email protected]>: > On Tue, August 23, 2011 15:47, Marcos Douglas wrote: >> Hi, >> For developers that use FPC sources from SVN, like me, I ask: >> 1. There are some advantage to use 'make install' to compile FPC? Which? >> 2. There are some advantage to install (make install) in a directory >> different of the sources? Which? > > I'd say that there are several possible advantages there. First, removing > your SVN tree (e.g. in case that it got broken for some reason) doesn't > remove your FPC installation. Second, it's a good practice to keep > executable files in dedicated directories, e.g. to avoid setting PATH to a > directory with source files. Third, in a multi-user environment you may > want to provide access to your compiled FPC snapshot also to other users > (including those who may not have access to your sources). Finally, it > allows parallel installation of different FPC versions - you may need that > in case of some regressions in FPC, etc. I may have missed one or two > more... ;-)
Thanks Tomas. Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
