[lazarus] New problem compiling

Marc Weustink marc at dommelstein.net
Sun Feb 18 11:21:13 EST 2001


At 20:51 17-02-01 +0000, Curtis White wrote:
>Marc Weustink wrote:
> >
> > Maybe you should install the compiler and point the ppc386.cfg to the
> > installed units and not to a dir with sources.
> > You only get these kind of errors (while building lazarus) if the compiler
> > for some reason wants to recompile a fpc unit. This recompilation only
> > occours when both sources and ppus are found.
> > The way makefiules are setup now is based upon a release compiler (wo
> > sources). So fpc units/packages never ever should be recompiled by building
> > lazarus.
> > This also count for the other dirs.
> >
>
>Well, I installed the fpc 1.0.5 from the Lazarus web site and it
>compiles the sources from CVS without any problems. So you are right
>that the makefiles are setup to work with the release compiler.
>
>Is it possible to setup the makefiles so that it works either way?

I can look at it.

>It seems like it should work regardless of where the compiler is installed.
>Once the compiler guys get the 1.1 compiler fixed, some people may want
>to start using it to build lazarus. But the way the makefiles are
>currently setup, they couldn't do that.

You allways can install the compiler by doing a "make install" in the fpc dir.

Marc






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