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make install does not link ppc386

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Brad Campbell

G'day all,

Another little quirk in the build process

I have to manually create the link in bin/ as fpc can't find ppc386

ln -s ../lib/fpc/2.3.1/ppc386

I did check the latest release version and that is what the link looked like, so I'm just assuming the install process fails to create it.

Regards,
Brad

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Jonas Maebe
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Brad Campbell wrote 9 lines
Another little quirk in the build process I have to manually create the link in bin/ as fpc can't find ppc386 ln -s ../lib/fpc/2.3.1/ppc386 I did check the latest release version and that is what the link looked like, so I'm just assuming the install process fails to create it.

This is indeed only done if you do

make installsymlink

inside the compiler directory. I don't know the history behind this separation, to be honest.

Jonas

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Brad Campbell
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Jonas Maebe wrote 9 lines
> I did check the latest release version and that is what the link > looked like, so I'm just assuming the install process fails to create it. This is indeed only done if you do make installsymlink inside the compiler directory. I don't know the history behind this separation, to be honest.

Thanks, I'll add that to my little re-build batch file instead of manually creating the link.

Much appreciated.

Brad

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Marco van de Voort
to Jonas Maebe: This is indeed only done if you do make installsymlink inside the compiler directory. I…
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On 25 Mar 2007, at 16:09, Brad Campbell wrote: > Another little quirk in the build process > > I have to manually create the link in bin/ as fpc can't find ppc386 > > ln -s ../lib/fpc/2.3.1/ppc386 > > I did check the latest release version and that is what the link > looked like, so I'm just assuming the install process fails to > create it. This is indeed only done if you do make installsymlink inside the compiler directory. I don't know the history behind this separation, to be honest.

Permissions. We didn't install that many binaries in prefix/bin in (really) former times as we do now. And you might not have permissions there, but instead make a symlink from ~/bin/x to prefix/lib/fpc/2.1.1/x

But nowadays the installation proces is way more clean, and as long as a bad result is ignored, I think it can be done always.

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