[fpc-devel] another make install issue

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
>
> The following line to install fpc used to work:
> make.exe install  INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\FPC\trunk\  COPYTREE=echo UPXPROG=echo
>
> But now leads to:
> .\fpmake.exe install --localunitdir=../.. --globalunitdir=.. --os=win32
> --cpu=i386 -o -Ur -o -Xs -o -O2 -o -n -o
> -FuC:/FPC/SVN/trunc/rtl/units/i386-win32 -o
> -FuC:/FPC/SVN/trunc/packages/hash/units/i386-win32 -o
> -FuC:/FPC/SVN/trunc/packages/paszlib/units/i386-win32 -o
> -FuC:/FPC/SVN/trunc/packages/fcl-process/units/i386-win32 -o
> -FuC:/FPC/SVN/trunc/packages/fpmkunit/units/i386-win32 -o -FE. -o
> -FUunits/i386-win32 -o -di386 -o -dRELEASE
> --compiler=C:/FPC/SVN/trunc/compiler/ppc386.exe --prefix=c:\FPC\trunk\
>  --unitinstalldir=c:\FPC\trunk\/units/i386-win32/fcl-base -ie
> The installer encountered the following error:
> Failed to create directory "c:\FPC\trunk \bin\"
>
> It appears that 2 issu8es play together.
> 1) the windows path delim is not translated
> 2) the \ followed by a space is interpreted as escaped space, and included
> in the path
>
> I will try without the trailing \ But imho that shouldn't fail, it's a
> perfectly legal path (afaik)

I had this problem too -- using fcl-web -- so, I created a hack to
compile the FPC 2.5.1 (branches_2_6):

if %myVERSION% equ 2.5.1 (
   cd %myFPC%\packages\fastcgi\
   del /s fpmake.exe *.ppu *.o

   cd %myFPC%\packages\fcl-web\
   del /s fpmake.exe *.ppu *.o
)

...before 'make install'.

Marcos Douglas