[Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, 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...

Define 'in this manner' ?

The FPC installs for *unix allow  you to install wherever you want, provided
you have permissions for it.

Michael.