[lazarus] Text file database as a first step...?

[Marco van de Voort]

> >> powerfull to do some more complex tasks
> >
> > I'm all for it. Like I said, fpcmake is not a must, but a command-line
> > tool
> > is.
> 
> I forgot one of the most complex things of the Makefile's: the unix-tools
> you need like install/date/echo/pwd. For every platform we have to collect
> these tools. The most difficult platform sofar was Windows where we needed
> native win32 apps.

Maybe we can make some busybox version in FPC to use on non *nix platforms?

> Currently the Makefile doesn't support cygwin. Adding support to the
> Makefile is not easy because it needs more exceptions to look for
> install.exe instead of ginstall.exe etc.

And also because of this.

So detect ppc386 source, and if os_source=win32 or go32v2 (and maybe others),
INSTALL=mybinary -i
PWD= mybinary -p 

etc etc. 
?