[Lazarus] What does make install do?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:54:32 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Then I examined what had happened and I found that the install script
>>> had copied a number of files including lazarus executables to
>>> /usr/local/share/lazarus and the symlinks in /usr/local/bin were
>>> pointing to these executables effectively decoupling the lazarus
>>> installation in the /home/pi tree from use!
>> That is the intention.
>>
>>> So in essence what could be done to install Lazarus in Raspbian Jessie
>>> is to use the make install command as su but then adjust it by
>>> changing the symlinks back to the true installation directory in the
>>> home tree.
>> Usually that is NOT what you want in a default install.
>>
> 
> Well, Juha in an earlier post seem to indicate that one should keep
> Lazarus in ones home dir and use it from there too...

Yes, I was about to mention that.

> But he did not mention make install of course.
> I needed that to get a way to make Lazarus visible on the start menu.

I've already pointed you at the relevant xdg utility, but quite frankly 
I wonder why I bother.

> Anyway I now examined more and found that the install actually copied
> 970 MB worth of data to /usr/local/share/lazarus...
> Probably the entire chunk of files.

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