[Lazarus] Broken cross compile build.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:14:31 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 17 May 2010 06:41:48 +0200
>>> cobines <cobines at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's reported in Mantis.
>>>>
>>>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16389
>>>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15699
>>>>
>>>> The solution is to copy the needed .lfm files manually to the units
>>>> directory, where FPC can find them.
>>>
>>> That is a workaround.
>>>
>>> Both bug reports are in the category Lazarus, but they are FPC
>>> issues. We need create to a FPC bug report otherwise they will never
>>> be fixed.
>>
>> Why ? The .lfm files are source files, not compiled files.
>>
>> You must do the same in Delphi: copy all needed .res and .dcu files to
>> the search path.
>>
>> So I don't think that this is a bug; It's a consequence of using different
>> paths for sources and compiled files.
>
> I can't follow. Above you say the lfm is a source and now
> you say we should add it to the path of the compiled files.
>
> Does that mean, that we must pass the -Fu paths as -Fo paths
> again?

No, I'm just saying that I don't think this is a bug in the compiler.

The compiler must be able to find the files it needs to create
an executable. It's the job of the user/IDE to put the files where
the compiler can find them.

Michael.