Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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.
I wonder whether a useful compromise would be to install a sufficient
symlink that fpc -V reaches a plausible binary. After all, I'm sure
I'm not the only person who has a symlink layer like ppcx86-3.0.0 and
having ppcx86 forcibly overwritten before I was ready for it might not
be what I wanted.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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