On 06.02.2012 18:14, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 6-2-2012 17:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 06/02/12 16:40, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
This code:
OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
'+bootstrapcompilerdirectory+' result: '+BoolToStr(Operationsucceeded));
should create a directory (~/fpcbootstrap by default):
<snip>
What am I doing wrong?
Your shell expands ~ to your home directory. Your program will have to
do this manually (i.e. read the "HOME" environment variable).
I understand. Apparently ExpandFileName does this for me.
Still, I don't understand why I got a result that was true when FPC
apparent!??!.... Oh now I do, it created the directory "~\fpcbootstrap".
That was fun ;)
Perhaps I should submit a patch for the docs indicating that:
- ForceDirectories requires an absolute path
This is wrong. ForceDirectories works with relative paths as well. It
just does not work with path variables that are only known to the shell.
- On Unix/Linux, directories starting with ~ are considered relative
(but where should that be put...)
This is basic Linux/Unix knowledge: every path that does not start with
a "/" is a relative path.
Regards,
Sven
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