[lazarus] I can't compile Lazarus in Mandrake 9 (stupid question I'm sure)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:40:39 +0100 (CET)
marcov at stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:

> > I didn't run into this in my last distro, but I just put in a fresh
> > install of Mandrake 9 and I'm not sure what's causing this.  When I
> > go to make Lazarus, after a bit of compiling scrollby, I get:
> > 
> > Free Pascal Compiler version 1.0.7 [2002/10/29] for i386
> > Copyright (c) 1993-2002 by Florian Klaempfl
> > Target OS: Linux for i386
> > Compiling lazarus.pp
> > gdkpixbuf.pp(48,13) Fatal: Can't find unit GLIB
> > make[1]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tonym/lazarus'
> > make: *** [ide] Error 2
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what it's looking for.  I've installed ALL of the
> > linux packs for FPC from the daily snapshot.  And I checked my
> > package manager and everything GLIB and pixbuf related is installed.
> 
> 1) This glib is the interface unit only.
> 
> 2) The problem is probably a stale .ppu file somewhere that is
> searching for the old RTL. Adding OPT="-va" (pipe to file!), and
> examining the output often helps in these cases.

Also make sure that the unitpaths in /etc/fpc.cfg points to your fpc lib
directory.


Mattias