[lazarus] Question about makefile and makefile.fpc

[Marco van de Voort]

> Keith Bowes wrote:
> > 
> > From: "Michael A. Hess" <mhess at miraclec.com>
> > 
> > >
> > > Another bug I didn't mention was that 'windres' will not run
> > > correctly from 'make'. It complains about trying to run GCC. I forget
> > > the exact statement. However if I run the exact same command by
> > > itself outside of 'make' it works just fine.  :-\
> > >
> 
> > This is a problem with the DJGPP version of make.  This error doesn't
> > occur when using the Cygwin version of make
> > (ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/win32-1.0.6/separate/makew32.zip).
> 
> First of all this directory doesn't even seem to exists on the ftp site
> indicated above.

It does exist, but the permissions have changed, probably becasue Peter started
packaging the real 1.0.6, but forgot about the FAQ pointing to it

> To be sure I do have the latest I found it AND make_ming_win32.exe on
> another site and tried both of them and I STILL get the above error.

I'll try to make a copy to the contrib dir if I'm home +/- 19:00 CET