[fpc-pascal] fpmake: output directories

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

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> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Vincent Snijders wrote:
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>> Michael Van Canneyt schreef:
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>>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>>>> Hi fpmake devels,
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>>>> fpmake uses as ppu output directory for example:
>>>> units/i386-linux/
>>>> And there is no way to change this. Right?
>>>> 
>>>> Some LCL packages have different PPUs per widgetset, so they need an
>>>> output directory per widgetset. At the moment they use for example:
>>>> units/i386-linux-gtk2/
>>>> Another example is to distinguish between release and debug version.
>>>> 
>>>> What is the best/recommended way to solve this with fpmake?
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>>> You can't in this way.
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>> So, no debug and release version on one computer?
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> Not in this way, at least.

Hi,

Peter Vreman reminded me that we had this discussion on core about a year
ago. The solution we came up with was a 'subtarget' or 'configuration'.

This was simply an option to fpmake, which would alter the output path and
search paths. It was needed to discern between debug and non-debug, PIC and 
non-PIC code etc.

So there would be

fpmake --subtarget=debug

Which would send output in

units/i386-linux-debug

So maybe this can be used for the widgetsets, debug-non debug etc.

Beware: AFAIK it has not yet been implemented, but that was the initial
idea.

Michael.