Dear all,

On windows, "make install" copies .svn subdirectories from the packages/xxx/examples/ directories to the new examples/xxx/ directories. First time examples/xxx/ doesn't exist and all is fine. Second make install causes following error:
...
make[5]: Leaving directory `C:/lazarus/fpc/svn/packages/regexpr/examples' C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/ginstall.exe -m 755 -d C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr
C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/cp.exe -Rfp examples/* C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr
cp.exe: cannot remove old link to
`C:/lazarus/fpc/svn/examples/regexpr/.svn/all-wcprops': Permission denied cp.exe: cannot remove old link to
`C:/lazarus/fpc/svn/examples/regexpr/.svn/dir-prop-base': Permission denied cp.exe: cannot remove old link to
`C:/lazarus/fpc/svn/examples/regexpr/.svn/entries': Permission denied cp.exe: cannot remove old link to
`C:/lazarus/fpc/svn/examples/regexpr/.svn/prop-base/Makefile.fpc.svn-base': Permission denied
...

The permission denied comes probably from the read-only attribute of .svn files.

The easiest solution I've found is to delete the examples directory before running make install.

A more lasting solution would be to change the makefile to execute instead
of;

C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/ginstall.exe -m 755 -d C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr
C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/cp.exe -Rfp examples/* C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr

the following:

C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/ginstall.exe -m 755 -d C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr
C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/rm.exe -rf
C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr
C:/lazarus/fpc/2.4.3/bin/i386-win32/cp.exe -Rfp examples/* C:\lazarus\fpc\svn/examples/regexpr

Something along the lines of ( added $(DELTREE) $(INSTALL_EXAMPLEDIR) ):

fpc_exampleinstall: $(addsuffix _distclean,$(TARGET_EXAMPLEDIRS)) ifdef HASEXAMPLES
$(MKDIR) $(INSTALL_EXAMPLEDIR)
$(DELTREE) $(INSTALL_EXAMPLEDIR)
endif
ifdef EXAMPLESOURCEFILES
$(COPY) $(EXAMPLESOURCEFILES) $(INSTALL_EXAMPLEDIR) endif
ifdef TARGET_EXAMPLEDIRS
$(COPYTREE) $(addsuffix /*,$(TARGET_EXAMPLEDIRS))
$(INSTALL_EXAMPLEDIR)
endif

Ludo

In our previous episode, Ludo Brands said:

On windows, "make install" copies .svn subdirectories from the packages/xxx/examples/ directories to the new examples/xxx/ directories. First time examples/xxx/ doesn't exist and all is fine. Second make install causes following error:

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq/#toc-Section-2.4

OK, read that: I'll stick to deleting the examples directory. It produces "quickly" the same result as the "slow solution". It's part of my build and install batch files now.

Thanks, Ludo