On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Tony Whyman wrote:
I am not convinced that it is a good idea for the default install to result
in a broken system.
It's not broken.
As jonas said, make install is used a lot to install a new version,
but that doesn't mean you want to make it the default version.
Do not forget that using makefiles implies that you already
have a working version.
But maybe we can add a
make distinstall
target (target name debatable) on the FPC root directory that calls
make -C compiler installsymlink
which would then proceed to do what you want on unix systems.
If the make info or help mentions this, it should be OK.
Michael.
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