On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > In our previous episode, Martin said: > >> data2inc seems to be part of fpc - I haven't seen any 3rd party package >> of this name (at least my older fedora does not offer it on it's own). >> >> So I wonder, if it is build from pascal source, then why can't that be >> part of the build process. I fit comes from somewhere else, then where from? > > Because it is built relatively late, and couldn't be used in the > buildprocess before. Moreover it is only occasionally needed (as Jonas said, > in case of datestamp corruption, or when mistakes are made while committing) > > Note though that these problems are NOT even due to that. Both of you have > explained that you have built snapshots (make all) successfully before. > > That means that this problem wouldn't be happening if those snapshots were > properly installed. > > Every succesful "make all" generates a data2inc, and every "make install" > installs it into the relevant "bin" directory.
So, I can put a old data2inc in /utils and to run 'make all'. It will use data2inc and, after, create a new data2inc binary, right? Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
