No, that won't work either. He needs first to install the latest release which is 0.99.12. Because the snapshots can only be compiled by the latest released version.

Thanks Michael, but I meant to put 'rtl' in my listing it is actually there. But, looking at the make output again:

$ new_ppc
make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/fpc/compiler'
rm -f ppc386
rm -f *.o *.ppu *.s *.a *.so *.ppl
rm -rf *.sl
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/fpc/compiler'
make -C ../rtl/Free Pascal Compiler version 0.99.5 lf> This program comes under the GNU General Public Licence For more information read COPYING lf> Report bugs,suggestions etc to:
libsclean
make: *** ../rtl/Free: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [cycle] Error 2
mv: *.ppu: No such file or directory
cp: compiler/ppc386: No such file or directory

On the "make -C ../rtl/Free Pascal..." line, the output of 'ppc386' is being concatenated onto the command line to be executed, maybe because it was called incorrectly. I know very little about make, so I don't really know how this is happening.

I have been meaning to learn make in depth. Does anybody know of a good source?

Semper Fidelis,

Christopher Micheal Bordeman

Not just another 'Chris', another 'Michael' :)

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Chris Bordeman wrote

make -C ../rtl/Free Pascal Compiler version 0.99.5

This could be the problem. I think you need to use a newer version to compile the latest. You may need to get the latest snapshot of the compiler. Go to ftp://tflily.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/fpc/snapshot/ and get the latest, and see if that helps.

Jeff.