[Lazarus] FPC Source Error: directory not found

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:

>> Could ppcXXX return its build directory? Then provided this existed 
>> and perhaps subject to other consistency checks the IDE could suggest 
>> it as the default.
>>
> 
> So if I would send you a ppcross68k compiled on my development machine 
> and you would then ask it for it's build directory it would return 
> "/mnt/data/subversion/fpc-build". Would this help you in any way? I 
> think not... (and this is exactly what would happen if you'd use a 
> compiler provided through any package distribution, as you are not 
> normally building from within "/usr/lib" or whatever.

Exactly: that's a case where it wouldn't help so could fall back to 
something hardcoded. But for people who'd built locally from svn, from a 
numbered release or from a daily snapshot it would get it right most of 
the time. Of course, it wouldn't help weirdos like me who copy the 
sources to /usr/lib/fpc/x.x.x/fpcsrc, but I expect that I'm a minority 
in that.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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