[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#887575: Bug#887575: Bug#887575: Bug#887575: Bug#887575: castle-game-engine FTBFS with fpc 3.0.4

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Michalis,
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 22:25 +0100, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> 2018-01-18 20:56 GMT+01:00 Michalis Kamburelis <michalis.kambi at gmail.com>:
> > So, we should get to the point where CGE (or any other package
> > using fpmake) can be compiled by simple
> > 
> > ~~~
> > unset FPCDIR
> > fpc fpmake.pp
> > ./fpmake # without any additional options like --globalunitdir
> > ~~~
> > 
> 
> I created a "simplest possible example of using fpmake", so that you
> can test it all without dealing with (unrelated) Castle Game Engine
> code and Makefiles:
> 
> - Get https://github.com/michaliskambi/simplest-fpmake-test .
> - Run "./testme.sh", that just calls "./fpmake".
> - I think that we should make it "just work" if user installed FPC
> from a Debian package. Without the need to set $FPCDIR, without the
> need to pass --globalunitdir .
> 
> Right now, it will not work. Right now, you need to use
> --globalunitdir pointing to the proper location when invoking fpmake
> (see testme.sh comments).
> 
> (In the previous FPC versions, setting environment variable FPCDIR was
> also enough, without the need for --globalunitdir . It doesn't work
> for me now, although I see that the code reading $FPCDIR is in
> TFPCDefaults.CompilerDefaults. As far as I observed, this was broken
> in FPC 3.x upstream, unrelated to Debian.)
Thank you  for this example. I'll use it to debug this WE and hope we get it
fixed by beginning of next week.

-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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