[fpc-devel] Building win32 version from trunk - .svn directories copied inside examplest

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Jan 13 23:29:17 CET 2009


In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
> > I've checked out trunk version of fpc, compiled it with 2.2.2 and
> > everything works fine (including compiling and using Lazarus). But,
> > I've noticed that .svn directories are copied for some subdirectories
> > of examples which:
> > 
> > 1) ... is strange behaviour of cp.exe. Does this, maybe, have
> > something to do with cp.exe?
> > 
> > 2) ... makes it impossible to 'make install' fpc for the second time
> > since it reports error when tries to copy .svn over old ones.
> > 
> > Does anyone else have similar problem?
> 
> As far as I remember, make install for packages directly from the SVN 
> tree isn't supported under Win32, you should use exported sources for 
> that.

A solution is in the buildfaq.  http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf



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