Hi,

While trying to only recompile and install the 'fcl-fpcunit' directory, I played around with the fpmake build system. I'm using FPC 2.2.3.

My directory layout is as follows:

/opt/fpc_2.2.3/
^---- install location for: make install
INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/fpc_2.2.3

/opt/fpc_2.2.3/src
^---- svn checkout of 2.2.3

The following was tried while inside: /opt/fpc_2.2.3/src/packages/fcl-fpcunit/

* I can compile fpmake.pp without problems.
* I can build the source code without problems using: ./fpmake build -UG /opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/
* I can archive the source code without problems using ./fpmake archive

What is the 'install' option supposed to do??? Where does it install do?

I ran the following and got no output. No errors no nothing. It also didn't install to the /opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/fcl-fpcunit/ directory
as I hoped for.

./fpmake install -B /opt/fpc_2.2.3 -UG
/opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/

I thought the -B option might need to be the same as: make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/fpc_2.2.3

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

'fpmake install' should do the same as 'make install' copy the locally build units to their final destination.

To see what fpmake does add --verbose or --debug.

for 'fpmake build' you should not need to specify the final output dir. 'fpmake install' will move the files.

Peter

Peter Vreman wrote

To see what fpmake does add --verbose or --debug.

ah, the -v option showed where the files were copied to... Needless to say, the wrong location, as shown below.

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$ ./fpmake install -v -B /opt/fpc_2.2.3 -UG
/opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/
Installing package fcl-fpcunit
Copying file "units/i386-linux/digesttestreport.o" to "/opt/fpc_2.2.3/units/i386-linux/fcl-fpcunit"

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I had to specify the following, to get it to work correctly.

./fpmake install -v -B /opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/ -UG /opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/

for 'fpmake build' you should not need to specify the final output dir. 'fpmake install' will move the files.

I had to, otherwise I get the following error.

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$ ./fpmake install -v -UG /opt/fpc_2.2.3/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/ Installing package fcl-fpcunit
The installer encountered the following error:
Failed to create directory
"/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/fcl-fpcunit" ----------------------------------

This brings me to another question. Why must I keep specifying the -UG <path>?? If i don't I keep getting some error about can't finding the RTL dependency units. I can compile a simple program by simply using 'fpc someprogram.pas' from any directory location. FPC is in my PATH and fpc.cfg has the correctly unit paths setup.

My $HOME/.fpc.cfg already has the correct unit path location, but 'fpmake' doesn't seem to read or use the fpc.cfg
Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

fpc.cfg depends on (internal) compiler defines.

Peter