[fpc-devel] Building a debug version of FPC-main on Windows

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 8/28/2021 om 10:52 PM schreef Werner Pamler via fpc-devel:
> Am 25.08.2021 um 20:53 schrieb Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel:
>> Sorry. I'm on holiday, and I only check in occasionally at night. Try 
>> changing PP= to FPC=
> Thank you, Marco. Now I did already the second successful build of a 
> older clone after an update. This really was the solution. But what is 
> the difference between PP= and FPC= ?

As michael says, the make file use both FPC and PP which point 
internally to the corresponding binaries (fpc(.exe) and ppc<arch>(.exe)).

What I think is that the FPC binary found in the path  was queried (and 
found a ppc<x> binary in the same dir) and overrode your PP= setting.