On 08.01.2017 11:20, Bo Berglund wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 12:24:39 +0100 (CET), "Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)" > <char...@scenergy.dfmk.hu> wrote: > Then I went looking for the new ppcarm compiler and found it in these > locations: > > /home/pi/dev/fpc/3.0.2RC1/compiler/ppcarm (in the source tree) > /home/pi/bin/fpc/3.0.2RC1/lib/fpc/3.0.2/ppcarm (in the install tree) > > I guess that the first location is the result of make all command and > the second of the install command?
Correct. > My question now is why the compiler binary was placed into the > subdirectory lib/fpc/3.0.2/ of the INSTALL_PREFIX path rather than in > that directory itself? > And it seems like the other compiled binaries are collected in one > place, but that is also a subdirectory... > So all of the other binaries were placed in > /home/pi/bin/fpc/3.0.2RC1/bin > > Is there a reason for this strange behaviour? Especially why the > actual new compiler was placed in such a remote place? > The install make target places the main binaries in /bin and the ppcXXX binaries in /lib/fpc/$VERSION as this follows Posix principles. INSTALL_PREFIX does exactly what its name says: it adds a prefix to these paths. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
