[fpc-pascal] make: -iVSPTPSOTO: Command not found

[Tomas Hajny]

On 15 Jan 13, at 18:58, Eric Kom wrote:
> On 15/01/2013 17:40, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> >
> >>> runnable fpc, you mean fpc-2.6.0 installed?
> >>>> export PP=/usr/local/bin/ppc386
> >>>> make OPT='-O- -gl -Xs-' all
> >
> > Apologies for my poor threading here, but a message got lost in the 
> > spam trap.
> >
> > > >> <ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/%29>.
> > >Thanks for the bootsrap link.
> > >
> > > But I got another problem during linking process:
> > > fp.pas(553,1) Error: Error while linking
> > > fp.pas(553,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> > > Fatal: Compilation aborted
> > > make[5]: *** [fp] Error 1
> > > make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/ide'
> >
> > You've not put in enough context, but I'd guess that it can't find the 
> > libgdb library for the fp IDE (which not many people use, and I think 
> > that you've successfully built the main fpc compiler etc). Try setting 
> > PP as before, then
> >
> > make NOGDB=1 OPT='-O- -gl -Xs-' all
> the build process went successful.
> 
> it failed again during make install:
> make rtl_distinstall FPC=/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/compiler/ppc386 
> ZIPDESTDIR=/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc FPCMAKE=__missing_command_FPCMAKE
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc'
> make -C rtl distinstall
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/rtl'
> make -C linux all
> make[5]: Entering directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/rtl/linux'
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/rtl/linux'
> __missing_command_FPCMAKE -p -Ti386-linux Makefile.fpc
> make[4]: __missing_command_FPCMAKE: Command not found
> make[4]: *** [fpc_install] Error 127
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/rtl'
> make[3]: *** [rtl_distinstall] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc'
> make[2]: *** [installbase] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild/fpcsrc'
> make[1]: *** [installbase] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erickom/fpcbuild'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> missing command fpcmake

As already suggested by Jonas (and also by me when giving it as the 
first option in my list of options), regular installation of the last 
release should be the first choice (and anything else is not 
supported). That said, possible workaround for your particular case 
would be using the newly created fpcmake binary (probably already 
built in fpcsrc/utils/fpcm/ before the step which failed for you) - 
either in its original place or by copying it elsewhere first; you 
can inform FPCMAKE of its location by adding 
FPCMAKE=.../fpcsrc/utils/fpcm/fpcmake to the make command.

Still, I agree to Jonas that standard installation should be 
preferred over these workarounds (which are primarily intended for 
situations when the standard solution cannot be used).

Tomas