E.7.4 Program names

The following variables are program names, used in makefile targets.

AS
The assembler. Default set to as.
COPY
A file copy program. Default set to cp -fp.
COPYTREE
A directory tree copy program. Default set to cp -frp.
CMP
A program to compare files. Default set to cmp.
DEL
A file removal program. Default set to rm -f.
DELTREE
A directory removal program. Default set to rm -rf.
DATE
A program to display the date.
DIFF
A program to produce diff files.
ECHO
An echo program.
FPC
The Free Pascal compiler executable. Default set to ppc386.exe
INSTALL
A program to install files. Default set to install -m 644 on linux.
INSTALLEXE
A program to install executable files. Default set to install -m 755 on linux.
LD
The linker. Default set to ld.
LDCONFIG
(linux only) The program used to update the loader cache.
MKDIR
A program to create directories if they don’t exist yet. Default set to install -m 755 -d
MOVE
A file move program. Default set to mv -f
PP
The Free Pascal compiler executable. Default set to ppc386.exe
PPAS
The name of the shell script created by the compiler if the -s option is specified. This command will be executed after compilation, if the -s option was detected among the options.
PPUMOVE
The program to move units into one big unit library.
PWD
The pwd program.
SED
A stream-line editor program. Default set to sed.
UPX
An executable packer to compress your executables into self-extracting compressed executables.
ZIPPROG
A zip program to compress files. Zip targets are made with this program.