[fpc-devel] Changes in Makefile-system

[Sergei Gorelkin]

06.04.2011 12:56, Joost van der Sluis пишет:
>> Another disaster occurs when I try to use the same source tree from different OSes.
>> Say first I build in Linux, it successfully creates the '/packages/fcl-web/fpmake' executable. After
>> that building from Windows fails since it attempts to run the Linux fpmake without rebuilding it.
>> `make clean' from Windows does not remove Linux executable (tries to remove the 'fpmake.exe' or does
>> not remove it at all, or maybe for some other reason). Removing it by hand solves the problem.
>
> The reason that fpmake is not removed, is that you need it to do the
> clean. But maybe I can let the akefile compile fpmake, then run it to do
> the cleanup, and then remove the executable again.
>
I was seeing it from the point "one system does not touch files created by/for the other system", to 
be honest.
The things are going to get even more interesting when cross-compilation comes in...

> To solve your actual problem, we could add a suffix to the fpmake
> executable name in case it is build by the Makefile. fppkg can simply
> check if the existing executable does work, and if not, re-compile it.
>
...it will end up with a directory containing (hosts * targets) fpmake executables?
Just-in-time recompilation looks somewhat better in comparison with that :)

Regards,
Sergei