i've managed to (mostly) work out the problems i had building latest cvs. make cycle runs nicely, make all completes w/o crashing, but when i attempt a "make install" the following happens ...

c:/pp/bin/win32/cp.exe -rfp tests/* /pp/examples/fcl cp.exe: cannot remove old link to `/pp/examples/fcl/Makefile': Permission denied

cp.exe: cannot remove old link to `/pp/examples/fcl/Makefile.fpc': Permission de
nied
make[3]: *** [fpc_exampleinstall] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `C:/CVS/fpc/fcl/db'
make[2]: *** [db_exampleinstall] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `C:/CVS/fpc/fcl'
make[1]: *** [fcl_distinstall] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/CVS/fpc'
make: *** [install] Error 2

however, after this fails i can type ppc386 -i from anywhere and i get the following which leads me to believe that everything went ok ...

Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.2

Compiler Date : 2004/01/04

not really sure that these errors are something i need to be concerned with, but i wouldn't think an error that causes the install process to terminate is something i should ignore ... :)

Recently I switched to windows xp for building from cvs. I had also these kind of troubles, except it stopped the installation. So compiler where updated, but it failed on updating the error message files, and there no fresh rtl was installed, which was troublesome. You think are have up to date libraries, but instead you are still working with the old ones.

I found out that the files, which cp.exe couldn't overwrite were marked read-only. So I removed the read-only flag from all those (installed) files and from all the file I had downloaded from cvs. WinCVS default to checking out read-only, which is not the 'right' way.

Maybe this solves these kind of problems for others too, so I send it to the list so that it can be found in the mailing list achives.

Regards,
Vincent.