[Lazarus] FPC Source Error: directory not found

[Eric Kom]

On 08/11/2012 18:17, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks a lot for your support

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Eric Kom

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