[fpc-pascal] FPC make all: as.exe not found unless in path

[Henry Vermaak]

On 02/02/12 13:37, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>
> However, when doing the same with make install:
> C:\development\binutils\make.exe
> FPC="c:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe"
> CROSSBINDIR="C:\development\binutils" --directory="c:\development\fpc"
> UPXPROG=echo COPYTREE=echo install
>
> I get
> ....
> C:/development/binutils/make.exe -C importtl install
> make.exe[4]: Entering directory `c:/development/fpc/utils/importtl'
> C:/development/binutils/ginstall.exe -m 755 -d //bin
> C:/development/binutils/ginstall.exe: cannot create directory `//bin':

It's trying to create the install directory.  You probably want to 
provide it with a prefix of some sort to tell it where to do that.  Use 
INSTALL_PREFIX.

Marco's buildfaq is a very good resource for building fpc:

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf

Henry