[fpc-devel] RTL development cycle

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, luiz americo pereira camara wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Until now, when i make changes to RTL units in trunk, i take two pathes to test and compile:
> 
> 1) If the unit is self contained, i go to source directory and compile directly
> 2) If the unit is a dependency of other RTL parts, i rebuild all the compiler and RTL
> 
> I tried improve this cycle.

There is no improvement, you are doing it correct.

> 
> So after i changed the file fpexprpars, i run "make all" in the fpc source root dir. Nothing happens
> 
> I went to \packages\fcl-base dir and run make PP="my271compilerpath" and i got:
> 
> Start compiling package fcl-base for target i386-win32.
>        Compiling BuildUnit_fcl_base.pp
> [100%] Compiled package fcl-base
> 
> But fpexprpars is not recompiled

It should be, unless timestamps are messed up on your system.

> 
> Is there any better way to compile and test changes in the RTL?

No. You do what must be done.

Michael.