On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Tony Whyman wrote:
I'm experimenting with building fpc from source in various combinations and a
couple of issues have come up which could be bugs or just me not knowing
which environment variables to set.
The build environment is a clean install of Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon (64 bit)
with fpc 2.6.4 installed from the binary distribution. fpc-build-3.0.0.tar.gz
is then expanded into my home directory and I start off by cd-ing into the
directory and starting the build with:
make all NOGDB=1
This seems to happily build the compiler and libraries for the default
environment. I then do a test install with:
make install NOGDB=1 INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/fpc
All seems to be installed fine expect for two things:
1. Missing softlink.
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The make install does not add the softlink:
ln -s /tmp/fpc/lib/3.0.0/ppcx86 /tmp/bin/ppcx86
I originally came across this problem when installing over 2.6.4 when
everything was OK expect that the old softlink /usr/bin/ppcx86 had been left
in place with the result that the new compiler was being ignored when I call
"fpc -iV" (i.e. 2.6.4 was still the active compiler).
This is as designed.
The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target in the
compiler directory.
Michael.
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