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

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 6-2-2012 17:49, ik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 18:40, Reinier Olislagers
> <reinierolislagers at gmail.com <mailto: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.
Thanks Ido,
Reinier