[fpc-pascal] Re: FPC mysteriously fails to find a specified path.

[Bruce Tulloch]

Okay, worked it out, main project directory was remotely mounted (from a
CIFS share) and there's clearly some sort of problem in the Ubuntu case
with I/O (Debian seems to be okay when the same share is mounted there,
hmm). -b

On 11/11/11 15:36, Bruce Tulloch wrote:
> I have a project in the directory:
>
>   /home/bruce/project
>
> which has sub-directories:
>
>   src
>   lib
>
> Both are specified in Lazarus' Other Unit Files:
>
>   src;lib
>
> but verbose message when attempting to compile the project
> produces the following excerpt:
>
>   Handling option "-Fu/home/bruce/project/src"
>   interpreting option "-Fu/home/bruce/project/src"
>   Path "./src/" not found
>   Handling option "-Fu/home/bruce/project/lib"
>   interpreting option "-Fu/home/bruce/project/lib"
>   Using unit path: ./lib/
>
> That is, FPC fails to find the "src" directory but succeeds
> to find the "lib" directory. Both directories exist and are
> in all respects except their names identical. Something is
> blocking FPC from finding "src" because it's called "src".
>
> I've tried other directory names and some work and others
> don't. I've detected a pattern to it yet.
>
> This problem occurs using the Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity) packaged
> versions of FPC and Lazarus. If I use Lazarus SVN trunk on
> a Debian Squeeze machine (with FPC 2.4.2) it all works fine.
>
> Is this an FPC 2.4.4 bug or some sort of error on my part?
>
> Cheers, Bruce.
>