[fpc-pascal] Make clean error when building fpc 3.2.2 from sources

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2021-11-22 16:21, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On 22/11/2021 16:02, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> This is what happens when I execute the first make command inside the 
>> fpc source
>> dir:
>> 
>>    ~/devel/fpc/3.2.2$ make clean
>>    make: -iVSPTPSOTO: Command not found
>>    /usr/bin/rm -f build-stamp.*
>>    /usr/bin/rm -f base.build-stamp.*
>> 
>> I have checked that build-essentials are installed on this Ubuntu 
>> machine.
>> 
>> Where do I go from here?
> 
> FPC needs a previous version of FPC to bootstrap. So first install fpc
> using apt-get on the VM.

While the answer from Jonas is obviously the simplest and most complete 
solution, there is an alternative workaround (not necessarily a fully 
guaranteed solution!) for your situation. The particular failing / 
missing command used by make is the fpc binary. If you have installed a 
bootstrap compiler _and_ if you try to perform a native build (not to 
build for a different CPU), you can run make with an additional 
parameter setting the variable "FPC" to the path of your compiler binary 
(e.g. 'make all "FPC=/usr/bin/ppcx64"').

Tomas