On 23.07.2010 15:31, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 06:20 +0300, Adem wrote: > >> [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. >
I'm using fpcmake and make for my project and it works fine since years. So whatever you use to build the compiler, please dont drop fpcmake :-) Thanks! Stefan
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