Cannot install PMake: fatal error: could not find ./PMake.txt

[rchastain]

Hello! Congratulations for this very impressive project.

I am discovering the project. I have just made a first test, under Linux. I downloaded the current code of the repository and compiled it myself.
First I tried to install PMake, by following the "quick start" page of the documentation. When I call "pmake", it seems to work correctly, but "make install" doesn't work. Please see log attached (1.log).

After that I tried the first example, and got the same error (2.log).

What did I miss?

Best regards.

Roland
1.log
2.log

[rchastain]

Made a quick test under Windows. It works perfectly. Very interesting project!

If ever you work again on it, I would be glad to help.

Regards.

Roland

[rchastain2]

I have just made another test:

[roland@localhost sources]$ git clone https://github.com/daar/pmake.git
Clonage dans 'pmake'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 942, done.
remote: Total 942 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 942 (from 1)
Réception d'objets: 100% (942/942), 4.31 Mio | 1.69 Mio/s, fait.
Résolution des deltas: 100% (588/588), fait.
[roland@localhost sources]$ cd pmake/pmake
[roland@localhost pmake (master)]$ fpc pmake
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2023/03/05] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling pmake.pp
Compiling pmake_main.pas
Compiling pmake_utilities.pas
Compiling depsolver.pas
Compiling pmake_utilities.pas
Compiling pmake_variables.pas
Compiling crc16.pas
Compiling pmake_api.pas
Compiling compiler.pas
pmake_variables.pas(351,5) Warning: unreachable code
pmake_utilities.pas(292,3) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
pmake_utilities.pas(316,42) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
Compiling pmake_quickstart.pas
Compiling make_main.pas
Linking pmake
4462 lines compiled, 0.5 sec
3 warning(s) issued
[roland@localhost pmake (master)]$ ./pmake .
-- Creating makefile
-- Build file has been written to: make
-- PMakeCache.txt file has been written
-- Generating done
[roland@localhost pmake (master)]$ ./make install
-- Processing PMake.txt files
-- PMakeCache.txt file has been written
[ 10%] Compiling ./compiler.pas
[ 10%] Compiling /home/rola
[ 20%] Compiling ./crc16.pas
[ 30%] Compiling ./depsolver.pas
[ 40%] Compiling ./make2_main.pas
[ 50%] Compiling ./make_main.pas
[ 60%] Compiling ./pmake_api.pas
[ 70%] Compiling ./pmake_main.pas
[ 80%] Compiling ./pmake_utilities.pas
[ 80%] Compiling /ho
pmake_utilities.pas(292,3) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
16,42) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
[ 90%] Compiling ./pmake_variables.pas
[ 90%] Compiling /ho
pmake_variables.pas(351,5) Warning: unreachable code
[ 90%] Built package lib_pmake
[100%] Compiling ./pmake.pp
Linkin
[100%] Built package pmake
[ 33%] Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake
[ 67%] Installing - /
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/depsolver.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_variables.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/make_main.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/crc16.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_main.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_utilities.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/compiler.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/make2_main.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_api.o
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake00000.o
[100%] Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_main.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/make2_main.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_api.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_utilities.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/depsolver.ppu
       Installin
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/make_main.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/crc16.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/pmake_variables.ppu
       Installing - /home/roland/Documents/pascal/sources/pmake/build/compiler.ppu
Installed files

As you can see, some output lines are truncated. And I don't really understand what the command ./make install does. Isn't it supposed to install pmake on my system?

By the way, what is the status of this project?

Regards.

Roland

[rchastain2]

After I read this message, I tried this:

[roland@localhost sources]$ git clone https://github.com/daar/pmake.git -b v0.0.3 pmake003
Clonage dans 'pmake003'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 942, done.
remote: Total 942 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 942 (from 1)
Réception d'objets: 100% (942/942), 4.31 Mio | 3.02 Mio/s, fait.
Résolution des deltas: 100% (588/588), fait.
[roland@localhost sources]$ cd pmake003/pmake
[roland@localhost pmake (v0.0.3)]$ fpc pmake
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2023/03/05] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling pmake.pp
Compiling pmake_main.pas
Compiling pmake_utilities.pas
Compiling depsolver.pas
Compiling pmake_utilities.pas
Compiling pmake_variables.pas
Compiling crc16.pas
Compiling pmake_api.pas
Compiling compiler.pas
pmake_variables.pas(353,5) Warning: unreachable code
pmake_utilities.pas(331,3) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
pmake_utilities.pas(355,42) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
Compiling pmake_quickstart.pas
Compiling make_main.pas
pmake_quickstart.pas(114,3) Note: Local variable "done" is assigned but never used
Linking pmake
4696 lines compiled, 0.5 sec
3 warning(s) issued
1 note(s) issued
[roland@localhost pmake (v0.0.3)]$ ./pmake .
-- Creating makefile
-- Build file has been written to: make
-- PMakeCache.txt file has been written
-- Generating done
[roland@localhost pmake (v0.0.3)]$ sudo ./make install
-- PMakeCache.txt file has been written
[  8%] Compiling ./compiler.pas
[  8%] Compiling /home/r
[ 17%] Compiling ./crc16.pas
[ 25%] Compiling ./depsolver.pas
[ 33%] Compiling ./make2_main.pas
[ 42%] Compiling ./make2_package.pas
72,10) Warning: Function result does not seem to be set
[ 50%] Compiling ./make_main.pas
[ 58%] Compiling ./pmake_api.pas
[ 67%] Compiling ./pmake_main.pas
[ 75%] Compiling ./pmake_quickstart.pas
.pas(114,3) Note: Local variable "done" is assigned but never used
[ 83%] Compiling ./pmake_utilities.pas
[ 83%] Comp
pmake_utilities.pas(331,3) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
pmake_utilities.pas(355,42) Warning: Symbol "faSymLink" is not portable
[ 92%] Compiling ./pmake_variables.pas
[ 92%] Compiling 
53,5) Warning: unreachable code
[ 92%] Built package lib_pmake
[100%] Compiling ./pmake.pp
Linking /home/roland/
[100%] Built package pmake
[ 11%] Installing - /
[ 22%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/sfx/sfx.pp
[ 33%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake/modules/module_lcl.pas
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake/modules/module_git.pas
       Installing - /u
[ 44%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/compiler.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/compiler.ppu
[ 56%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/crc16.o
       Installing - /usr/
[ 67%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/depsolver.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/depsolver.ppu
[ 78%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_main.ppu
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_utilities.ppu
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_variables.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_quickstart.ppu
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_quickstart.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_main.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_utilities.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/pmake_api.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pm
[ 89%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/make_main.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/make_main.ppu
[100%] Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/make2_package.o
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmak
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/make2_package.ppu
       Installing - /usr/lib/pmake/0.0.3/make2_main.o
Installed files

It seems to work better than the master branch but there still are lines truncated.

And after that pmake isn't executable:

[roland@localhost pmake (v0.0.3)]$ pmake
bash: /usr/bin/pmake: Permission non accordée