[Slackbuilds-users] FreeBASIC update fails

[Duncan Roe]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 04:09:40PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> From what I understand the script command also catches stderr that's the
> reason for using script at all.  I can do as you suggested earlier but I
> doubt you'll get any additional useful information from that output.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, B Watson wrote:
>
> > On 12/23/20, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
> > > This may be useful it's a typescript file stripped of the ansi characters.
> >
> > It's only the standard output, doesn't include standard error, so the
> > error messages aren't in there.
> > _______________________________________________

The error *is* in the typescript file:

> LINK bootstrap/fbc
> mkdir -p bin
> cp bootstrap/fbc bin/fbc
> make: Nothing to be done for '/usr/src/slapt-src/development/FreeBASIC/FreeBASIC-1.07.1-source-bootstrap/inc'.
> mkdir -p src/compiler/obj/linux-x86_64
> fbc -e -m fbc -w pedantic -d ENABLE_LIB64 -d ENABLE_STRIPALL  -maxerr 1 -c src/compiler/ast-gosub.bas -o src/compiler/obj/linux-x86_64/ast-gosub.o
> make: fbc: Command not found

'make' built fbc and copied it to local directory 'bin'.

'fbc' is then not found, either because
 a. local directory 'bin' is not in PATH (why would it be?)
 b. 'fbc' is not executable

Cheers ... Duncan.