Hello!

I tried to compile the daily snapshot from source and got the following during compilation:

make.EXE[3]: Entering directory `D:/FreePascal/sources/fpc/compiler' process_begin: CreateProcess((null), echo Start 12:42:49 now 12:43:09, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified. make.EXE[3]: *** [echotime] Error 2

Investigation has shown, that \Compiler\Makefile contains A) (Line 85): declaration for echo command, which is supposed to be present in system. On my WinXP it's not, so I had to change "echo" with "cmd /c echo"
B) A couple of declarations (sorry, have lost the line numbers) where echo is called directly, and not via the $(ECHO) variable.

Sincerely yours,
Eugene Mayevski

gecho.exe is delivered FPC.

Make sure you only use the make.exe and the tools delivered with FPC from CMD.EXE. Other combinations are not supported.

Peter

Hello!
You (Peter Vreman ) wrote
about "Re: [fpc-pascal] Minor issue compiling FPC from sources" on 07/31/2006 at 15:02:

PV> gecho.exe is delivered FPC.
PV> Make sure you only use the make.exe and the tools delivered with FPC PV> from CMD.EXE. Other combinations are not supported.

Yes, I do, and Makefile refers to echo, not gecho.

Sincerely yours,
Eugene Mayevski

That shouldn't matter that line is there already for years and is known to work on all Windows versions even dating back to WIn95 and upto including WinXP64. See below that it works:

D:\fpc\compiler>make --version
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

D:\fpc\compiler>make echotime
Start 14:24:46 now 14:24:46

Peter

Hello!
You (Peter Vreman ) wrote
about "Re: Minor issue compiling FPC from sources [fpc-pascal]" on 07/31/2006 at 15:26:

PV> That shouldn't matter that line is there already for years and is PV> known to work on all Windows versions even dating back to WIn95 and PV> upto including WinXP64. See below that it works:

No ideas:

C...>make echotime

process_begin: CreateProcess((null), echo Start 15:29:39 now 15:29:39, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.

D:\FreePascal\bin\i386-win32\make.EXE: *** [echotime] Error 2

I have the same version of gnu make, and gecho is present (I installed 2.0.2 some time ago).

Sincerely yours,
Eugene Mayevski

Eugene Mayevski ha scritto:

maybe you have delphi installed in your system?

what there is in your path?

bye
tiziano

Hello!
You (Tiziano_mk ) wrote
about "Re: [fpc-pascal] Minor issue compiling FPC from sources" on 08/2/2006 at 09:56:

T> maybe you have delphi installed in your system?

No, I don't, and it's FPC's make that is called. That's the strangest. Maybe someone can explain, where the "echo" command is expected to be taken? Maybe I missed something simple like a symlink from echo to gecho?

Sincerely yours,
Eugene Mayevski

Hi, Eugene,

Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 8:25:50 PM:

EM> No, I don't, and it's FPC's make that is called. That's the strangest. Maybe EM> someone can explain, where the "echo" command is expected to be taken? Maybe EM> I missed something simple like a symlink from echo to gecho? EM> Sincerely yours,
EM> Eugene Mayevski

Well, there is a system command "echo" under windows, there is "echo" program in "cygwin" (so, I guess it is present in most unices), so you have unusual system.

By the way, make is not FPC's: FPC's make is GNU.

So, if possible, acquire GNU utilities (binary).

If I remember right, I had a similar problem with a little "pwd" utility (it returns current absolute path).
If I guess right, "echo" command is to send information to terminal, so you can mostly harmless comment it.

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Hello!
You (Пётр Косаревский с mail.ru
) wrote about "Re[2]: Minor
issue compiling FPC from sources [fpc-pascal]" on 08/3/2006 at 00:16:

ПК> Well, there is a system command "echo" under windows, there is "echo" ПК> program in "cygwin" (so, I guess it is present in most unices), so you ПК> have unusual system.

Thanks, now I know where to look :). Most likely, it's incomplete set of cygwin tools, that causes troubles.

Sincerely yours,
Eugene Mayevski