[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#887967 closed by Abou Al Montacir <abou.almontacir at sfr.fr> (Bug#887967: fixed in fpc 3.0.4+dfsg-14)

[Michalis Kamburelis]

"2018-03-07 16:46 GMT+01:00 Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org>:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:46:09 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> This problem is unfortunately still present with fpc 3.0.4+dfsg-14:
>>
>> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/transgui.html
>
>
> This can be worked around by the following change in debian/rules:
>
> -export FPCDIR=/usr/lib/fpc/${FPCDIR}
> +export FPCDIR=/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/fpc/default
>
> However, it was my understanding that this was supposed to be fixed in FPC,
> so forwarding to the Pascal list for comment.
>

The recent fix in the Debian package of FPC was for the FpMake build
system, http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPMake . It tries to auto-detect
the standard units location, but can be overridden by $FPCDIR
environment variable. The auto-detection was fixed in this case,
removing the need for $FPCDIR.

It seems that transgui is using an older "fpcmake" system (depending
on Makefile which is auto-generated based on "Makefile.fpc" contents).
The auto-detection is in a different place then, although it is also
overridden by $FPCDIR environment variable.

You can see how this works in case of transgui :

- This is the source file:
https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui/blob/master/Makefile.fpc
- And developer calls "fpcmake" to generate a Makefile like this:
https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui/blob/master/Makefile

Searching the generated Makefile, there is a line that tries to
auto-guess the FPC library location:
https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui/blob/master/Makefile#L226
. So possibly it can be fixed in FPC package in Debian too.

Regards,
Michalis