[Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Jun 4 08:53:41 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:32:23AM -0400, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 6/3/2010 14:33, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > For practical reason it has always been the better way to install fpc
> > and lazarus per user, not globally in the systems /usr/local tree. It is
> > easier to swap compilers or mess with the sources of something that
> > otherwise would be r/o. Concluding there is no need for a binary package
> > if you ask me, I wouldn't use it - although I do use a precompiled fpc.
> 
> what would it take for the various *nix flavor maintainers to fix their install 
> scripts so that FPC and/or Lazarus were installed in this manner? it would 
> definitely fix a lot of headaches when it comes to installing the prepared 
> release packages...

I always do install them to some prefix (e.g. ~/fpc240) and then symlink
the necessary files to ~/bin and ~/etc




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