[fpc-devel] Re: Can't compile at revision: 17417

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Joerg Schuelke <joerg.schuelke at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 10 May 2011 11:11:22 -0300
> schrieb Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net>:
>
>> PS: BTW, what the difference (at least on Win) to use option "install"
>> in 'make'?
>
> Thats not windows related, make works the same way on all platforms.
> The arguments for make are:
> - options for make himself
> - targets (which parts of code to build)
> - variable definitions (which may modify the making of the targets)
>
> There are some commonly used targets with self explaining names
> - clean (tries to delete all during the build process generated files)
> - all (builds all targets -if you have more than one-)
> - install (installs the former build targets)
>
> If you want to know more about how make works, look for documentation.
> There is a lot of.
>
> There is somewhere a doc about the fpc build process, google for "fpc
> build faq".
>
> I think that is not development related, if you have more questions it
> may be better to visit a forum or the general fpc-pascal mailing list.

OK, thank you.

Marcos Douglas