[fpc-pascal] Too tired? Forcedirectories does not seem to work

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 18:40, Reinier Olislagers <
reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Busy porting FPCUP to Linux... think it's time to quit for the day....
>
> This code:
> OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
> debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
> '+bootstrapcompilerdirectory+' result: '+BoolToStr(Operationsucceeded));
>
> should create a directory (~/fpcbootstrap by default):
> The output that debugln produces:
> Debug: todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
> ~/fpcbootstrap/ result: -1
>
> Result=-1, so that's true & it must have worked, right?
>
> No, the directory is not created:
> pascaldev at debianlaz:~$ ls ~/fpcbootstrap
> ls: cannot access /home/pascaldev/fpcbootstrap: No such file or directory
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> Should I spell out the entire path /home/pascaldev/fpcbootstrap/? Leave
>

You should use ExpandFileName on ForceDirectory's content prior on sending
it to it.


> the trailing slash?
>
> Thanks for any tips,
> Reinier
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