[Lazarus] Newb alert: problem rebuilding Lazarus snapshot 0.9.31.35140-20120206 Linux

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:20:08 +0100
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Trying to port my fpcup FPC/Lazarus installer to Linux.
> 
> Tried a Debian unstable x64 VM with xfce.
> Installed fpc (got FPC 2.6, ok).
> Tried lazarus => got old 0.9.30 version that didn't seem to have
> lazutils package. Ok, I'll get the snapshot
> cd ~
> wget
> ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/lazarus-0.9.31.35140-20120206.amd64.deb.tar
> tar xvf lazarus-0.9.31.35140-20120206.amd64.deb.tar
> rm *qt*.deb #we're using gtk here, this will error out
> dpkg -i *.deb
> (fiddled some with removing all traces of 0.9.30, rebooting etc)

Reboot is not needed.

 
> Worked.
> However ran startlazarus, got complaints about instantfpc missing etc.

It probably means you have some 0.9.30.
Check your /etc/lazarus directory.


> Tools/build lazarus=>error
> ../lcl/lclproc.pas(39,2) Fatal: Can't find unit AvgLvlTree used by LCLProc

When updating from 0.9.30 to 0.9.31 you have to do a "make clean all".

 
> Lazarus source directory and FPC source directory seem ok in Lazarus
> options.
> 
> Realized I probably had to run this as root; did so; same problem.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?


Mattias