[fpc-devel] passing options for the build process.

[Henry Vermaak]

On 20 March 2012 22:42, peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
> The buildfaq claims that OPT= will add parameters to every compiler
> commandline. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to actually do that. The options
> are added when building the compiler and RTL but it seems they aren't added
> when building fpmake.
>
> This is a problem for me as to successfully build fpmake on a multiarch arm
> system I need to tell it where to find crti.o (it seems freepascal can
> successfully build stuff linked against c libraries without finding crti.o
> on some architectures but not others).
>
> For now i've created a symlink at /usr/lib/crti.o to
> /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/crti.o to make things work but i'd rather not
> have to mess with my system in that way. Is there some way of specifying
> options so that they actually get passed to ALL compiler invocations in the
> build process?

I had to fiddle around like this, too, unfortunately.  Does the
compiler read fpc.cfg when it's building?  It may work when adding it
there.  Reading /etc/ld.so.conf needs to be fixed, too.  At the moment
the Makefile adds the contents to -Fl, which doesn't work when there
are wildcards.

Henry