I have looked at a cook-book description on how to build fpc from sources on RaspBian Linux and there I found these steps (I have left out some other steps non-related to my question):
svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_3_0_0 3.0.0 cd 3.0.0 make clean make all OPT=-dFPC_ARMHF sudo make install OPT=-dFPC_ARMHF PREFIX=/usr sudo make install sourceinstall OPT=-dFPC_ARMHF PREFIX=/usr If I run these commands except the last everything seems to work fine including building lazarus and starting it. So my question is really if the last line above is superfluous and otherwise what it really does? Does it invoke the building of fpc twice or is "install sourceinstall" a separate command? I tried "make help" to see the available targets but it returned: Targets all Alias for build build Build a new compiler and all packages install Install newly build files zipinstall Create zip/tar of installed files singlezipinstall Alias for zipinstall So it seems like sourceinstall is not even a valid target.... Note: I have next to no knowledge of make, the only time ever I use make is when dealing with open source software like fpc and then only with direction from some instructions (files or webpages). -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
