[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.03.2013 10:58, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Sven Barth wrote:
>>> Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>>>> But on the other hand, if an application programmer could
>>>> disable FPC's unit handling and use  make -j  instead, choosing
>>>> to pay the price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the
>>>> criticism coming from certain quarters.
>>>>
>>> Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself
>>> as it would need to parse them.
>> That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC.
> Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that
> the user doesn't have to do this.
As this is something we (as in the FPC developers) don't need: patches 
are welcome.

[or you could try whether the ppdep tool still works: 
http://www.freepascal.org/tools/ppdep.var ]

Regards,
Sven