Greetings to all of the fpc/fcl/lazarus team,
My name is Chris Bordeman. I have been following the list for a few months and using linux for a few years. I wanted to start helping out w/ the FCL, and, having mostly followed the directions in the linux HOW-TO, I have gotten stuck cycling the compiler. I currently have these set up these in my ~/.bashrc:
export FPCDIR=/opt/fpc
export PPC_GCCLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.8.1/libgcc.a export CVSROOT=''
In the beginning, per the HOW-TO I logged into cvs and did a:
cvs -z3 checkout base compiler rtl fcl docs gtk lazarus
which over my 49333 kbps connection took 5-10 min. to complete.
I then created the 3 scripts in the HOW-TO (minus the export CVSROOT which was in ~./bashrc) and executed cvs_update which seemed to go ok.
I got the release ppc386 compiler and used its install.sh script, accepting defaults and when asked, pointing it at /opt/fpc which contained a libgcc.a. I copied the executable to /opt/fpc/ and created /opt/fpc/units/linux like the HOW-TO said.
I ran the HOW-TO script new_ppc to update/compile the compiler and got this:
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makefile.fpc not found!
Check the FPCMAKE and FPCDIR environment variables. make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/fpc/compiler'
makefile.fpc not found!
Check the FPCMAKE and FPCDIR environment variables. ppc386
ppc386 [options] <inputfile> [options]
+ switch option on, - off
-a the compiler doesn''t delete the generated assembler file -B+ build
-C code generation options
...
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I could find no makefile.fpc ANYWHERE under /opt/fpc, so I deleted all the cvs directories and did the 'cvs checkout ' line again. Now I suddenly have a base/makefile.cvs, so I inspected the Makefile, which had a reference to ../makefile.fpc so I copied base/makefile.fpc to /opt/fpc.
Here is a directory listing up to that point:
----------------------------------------
compiler (cvs dir)
demo (cvs dir)
gtk (cvs dir)
makefile.fpc (I copied out of base)
cvs_init (HOW-TO script)
docs (cvs dir)
lazarus (cvs dir)
new_ppc (HOW-TO script)
base (cvs dir)
cvs_update (HOW-TO script)
fcl (cvs_dir)
libgcc.a (not sure how that got there)
ppc386.release (copied from installed executable)
units (units/linux self-created dir)
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then I tried the new_ppc again, and got this:
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
Now I am lost. Is CVS just not giving me all the @#$%%& files or what???
I am running kernel 2.0.35-1 and CVS 1.9.
I apologize for the length, but I think someone should be able to help me w/all this info!
Thanks and Semper Fidelis,
Chris Bordeman
BTW, I am going to delete all my CVS dirs again and get them again, NOT do an update, set FPCMAKE to /opt/fpc/base and retry new_ppc again. If that fails, I'll retry w/no compression in the checkout.
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