[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Sven Barth]

On 05.03.2013 20:58, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2013-03-05 17:09, waldo kitty wrote:
>>
>> on another system i work with, we use disk-based breadcrumb semaphore files for
>> the different stages and parts of those stages...
>
> Thanks for you input. It sounds similar to what I was planning. Simply
> create an empty file in /tmp when each independent package is compiled
> successfully. Another process keeps checking /tmp for all the 0 byte
> files in expects. If they all exist, then build the test suite. Once
> that is complete, remove all the 0 byte files, and run the test suite.
>
> Now the question is, how good is fpmake? Will it can do something like
> that, or must I build my own system using scripts or console apps etc.

I didn't yet experiment that much with fpmake, but considering that 
fpmake.pas files are just plain Pascal programs...

Regards,
Sven