[Lazarus] FPC compiled from latest trunk says version is 2.4.0

[Sérgio Miguel Neves Lopes]

Hi, 

> You can change the Lazarus Environment Options, to use the new fpc.
> 
> DoDi


I would prefer to have bash use the new version.


> On 17.08.2010 01:08, Sérgio Lopes wrote:
> 
>> I just compiled FPC from trunk, and though it creates the various folders 
>> with the name 2.5.1, the binary indicates it's 2.4.0.
> 
> For some reason (i think it might be intentional) the "make install"
> does not really complete the installation. It puts everything into the
> /usr/local/lib/fpc/ sub-folders but it won't update (not even create if
> its missing) a symlink in your path that points to the newly installed
> ppc386 binary.

I have created the link, though installing from DMGs created ppcppc and ppcx64 and making from source didn't. Nevertheless I have changed the symlink to point to the new version.

Lazarus is also setup to use the sources from trunk and I think everything is working now.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Knitter