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 t
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 n
Tony Whyman wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2016:
On 29/01/16 13:35, Jonas Maebe wrote:
The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target
in the compiler directory.
Why?
Because "make install" is often used to install development
versions of FPC, and the you don't necessarily want
I think that my concern is that I fell into a simple trap. Now I know
it's there I probably won't do it again - but I want to report it so
that others don't do the same thing.
The problem is that intuitively "make install" should install a working
program or bring an existing one up-to-date. C
I am not convinced that it is a good idea for the default install to
result in a broken system.
Wouldn't it be better to have a "NOSYMLINK" environment variable instead
to handle the developer versions? Failing that a "README" file giving
basic build instructions could be useful or a final mes
On 29/01/16 13:14, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 29.01.2016 13:24 schrieb "Tony Whyman"
mailto:tony.why...@mccallumwhyman.com>>:
>
> 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
Am 29.01.2016 13:24 schrieb "Tony Whyman" :
>
> 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
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 Cinn
Tony Whyman wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2016:
On 29/01/16 13:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is as designed.
The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target
in the compiler directory.
Why?
Because "make install" is often used to install development versions
of FPC, and
On 29/01/16 13:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is as designed.
The symlink is only installed with the installsymlink make target in
the compiler directory.
Why? This means that "make install" is effectively broken as the symlink
is essential for the compiler to work.
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