[lazarus] Clean build from nothing

[Peter Vreman]

At 21:10 24-6-2003, you wrote:
> > At 19:55 24-6-2003, you wrote:
> > >What I want.
> > >tar -xzf fpc*
> > >cd fpc
> > >.configure
> >
> > We don't need to detect what kind of Pascal flavour is installed so the
> > configure step is not needed.
>
>The fpc is compiled from C as well as assembler so it would be useful.

There is no C code in FPC !!

>My point (rather badly made I admit) is that there are standard ways of
>installing software, and it appears that fpc (and lazarus by extension) do
>not follow that standard. So any hopes of getting more people involved are

But ./configure is also only C specific most times. For perl you need 'perl 
Makefile.PL'.

>immediatly stunted.  The rule of thumb should be, as you are move from doing
>things in the "normal/standard" way it should be documented more and more
>carefully to keep the level of obviousness from disappearing over the
>horizon. (and keep in mind my horizons as a non-user are quite different
>then you as someone who has gotten things working).
>
>I would be happy to help in this regard, but I'm stuck.

Ofcourse we can add a dummy ./configure script that does nothing.





Peter