In our previous episode, Joost van der Sluis said: > > [Please bear with me while I am trying to formulate this question; it > > is a tough one to do succinctly] > > > > If I am not mistaken, a version X of FPC is guaranteed to be compilable > > with version (X - 1). > > > > If that is so, I am assuming, one would not have to 'make' version X; > > meaning you could compile version X with the binaries form (X -1) if you > > had something like fpc.bpg (i.e. project group). > > > > The reason I am aiming for fpc.bpg is to avoid the problem of 'no spaces > > in file paths' problem. > > > > Even though 'fpc.bpg' does not exist, it seems all the information > > necessary to genereate one is there in the numerous 'fpmake.pp' units in > > the 'source' directory. > > I think that fpmake.pp is exactly what you want. Only it doesn't work > fully yet. > > If fpmake works, we don't need make anymore.
It is not, since it requires an installed RTL + fpmkunit to create the first fpmake. This is the bit handled by the still to be created bootstrap scripts. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
