[fpc-devel] Changes in Makefile-system

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 14:40 +0200, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 11:44 +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > On 02 Apr 2011, at 11:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > > 
> > >> It broke the compilation of 2.5.1 on all tested platforms last night. Here's the error I got on Darwin/ppc:
> > >> 
> > >> make -C fcl-web all
> > >> /Users/fpc/snapshot/fpc-2.3/compiler/ppcppc fpmake.pp -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fu/Users/fpc/snapshot/fpc-2.3/rtl/units/powerpc-darwin -Fu/Users/fpc/snapshot/fpc-2.3/packages/hash/units/powerpc-darwin -Fu/Users/fpc/snapshot/fpc-2.3/packages/paszlib/units/powerpc-darwin -Fu/Users/fpc/snapshot/fpc-2.3/packages/fcl-process/units/powerpc-darwin -Fu/Users/fpc/snapshot/fpc-2.3/packages/fpmkunit/units/powerpc-darwin -FE. -FUunits/powerpc-darwin -ap -dpowerpc -dRELEASE
> > >> {standard input}:unknown:FATAL:can't create output file: units/powerpc-darwin/fpmake.o
> > >> fpmake.pp(173,27) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> > >> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> > > 
> > > Does the output directory exist at all ?
> > 
> > Probably not. It has to be created by the Makefile/fpmake. All nightly runs are built from clean svn checkouts, so they don't have that "units" directory (while you, and probably Joost, presumably still had it a available from a previous build). That directory also has to be erased when performing a "make distclean".
> 
> Indeed. I'll fix that.

Done. Can someone who actually knows how to do that trigger a retry of a
testsuite-run, and a new testsuite-mail?

Joost