[Lazarus] Lazarus make clean fails...

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2023, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

>> (preferably use the full path to the ppcarm compiler)
>>
>> If you then still get the error, it means the makefiles for Lazarus indeed
>> do not support your target, but how to fix that is up to the lazarus team to
>> answer.
>>
>> Michael.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Indeed, it seems like the make tool does not honor the PATH setting....
>
> $ echo $PATH
> /home/bosse/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:
>
> $ which ppcarm
> /home/bosse/bin/ppcarm
>
> But I do not get the errors when make is started like this:
> $ make clean PP=$HOME/bin/ppcarm
>
> So now I went back to my lazarus 2.2.6 source dir where I have installed all of
> my customizations and ran  the make clean and make bigide with a specification
> of the compiler location as above, and it seems to have worked this time around.
> But when I start Lazarus it has lost the package customizations I made earlier,
> so I had to go over these again and rebuild the GUI afterwards from within
> Lazarus itself.
> OLPM + my own custom components
> But after that was done it seems like Lazarus is OK.
>
> What are the ramifications of adding the PP= directive to the make commands?

If you have multiple compilers on your system, you may be using a different
compiler compared to when you do not specify this parameter.

I always specify the starting compiler (because I have many versions
installed) so for me it is a way to make sure I am using the intended
compiler.

Michael.