On 21 Apr 2012, at 14:47, Martin wrote: > Not sure if that is a known issue. Or considered an issue at all.
It is known. > But on windows, if you specify the INSTALL_PREFIX with a trailing "\" (which > afaik is a normal way to specify a directory), I'm not aware of any standard for specifying directory names on command lines that suggests either including or not including a trailing directory separator. > install will fail. > make.exe install INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\FPC\tag_2_6_0\ > FPC=C:\fpc\SVN\tag_2_6_0\compiler\ppcx64.exe > > The problem is, that in the resulting command-line > "--prefix=c:\FPC\tag_2_6_0\ " the "\" escapes the following space. The reason that \ escapes the next character is because of make's Unix heritage. The above --prefix parameter is just a symptom, the actual escaping problem already occurs when make interprets the command line you specified. In summary: never add a terminating backslash to make parameters. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
