[fpc-devel] (Re)compiling FPC or is there something like fpc.bpg?

[Stefan Kisdaroczi]

On 23.07.2010 15:31, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 06:20 +0300, Adem wrote:
>   
>> [Please bear with me while I am trying to formulate this question; it 
>> is a tough one to do succinctly]
>>
>> If I am not mistaken, a version X of FPC is guaranteed to be compilable 
>> with version (X - 1).
>>
>> If that is so, I am assuming, one would not have to 'make' version X; 
>> meaning you could compile version X with the binaries form (X -1) if you 
>> had something like fpc.bpg (i.e. project group).
>>
>> The reason I am aiming for fpc.bpg is to avoid the problem of 'no spaces 
>> in file paths' problem.
>>
>> Even though 'fpc.bpg' does not exist, it seems all the information 
>> necessary to genereate one is there in the numerous 'fpmake.pp' units in 
>> the 'source' directory.
>>     
> I think that fpmake.pp is exactly what you want. Only it doesn't work
> fully yet.
>
> If fpmake works, we don't need make anymore.
>   

I'm using fpcmake and make for my project and it works fine since years.
So whatever you use to build the compiler, please dont drop fpcmake :-)
Thanks!

Stefan


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