[fpc-devel] make install does not link ppc386

[Marco van de Voort]

> On 25 Mar 2007, at 16:09, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Another little quirk in the build process
> >
> > I have to manually create the link in bin/ as fpc can't find ppc386
> >
> > brad at bklaptop2:/tracks/devel/fpc/bin$ ln -s ../lib/fpc/2.3.1/ppc386
> >
> > I did check the latest release version and that is what the link  
> > looked like, so I'm just assuming the install process fails to  
> > create it.
> 
> This is indeed only done if you do
> 
> make installsymlink
> 
> inside the compiler directory. I don't know the history behind this  
> separation, to be honest.

Permissions. We didn't install that many binaries in prefix/bin in (really)
former times as we do now. And you might not have permissions there, but
instead make a symlink from ~/bin/x to prefix/lib/fpc/2.1.1/x

But nowadays the installation proces is way more clean, and as long as a bad
result is ignored, I think it can be done always.