> On 25 Mar 2007, at 16:09, Brad Campbell wrote: > > > Another little quirk in the build process > > > > I have to manually create the link in bin/ as fpc can't find ppc386 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tracks/devel/fpc/bin$ ln -s ../lib/fpc/2.3.1/ppc386 > > > > I did check the latest release version and that is what the link > > looked like, so I'm just assuming the install process fails to > > create it. > > This is indeed only done if you do > > make installsymlink > > inside the compiler directory. I don't know the history behind this > separation, to be honest.
Permissions. We didn't install that many binaries in prefix/bin in (really) former times as we do now. And you might not have permissions there, but instead make a symlink from ~/bin/x to prefix/lib/fpc/2.1.1/x But nowadays the installation proces is way more clean, and as long as a bad result is ignored, I think it can be done always. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel