[Lazarus] Clean Up and Build / Fatal Error: Can't Create object file: units/i386-linux/hello.o

[Henry Vermaak]

On 7 June 2010 14:45, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't the examples (or indeed all of the source) be installed in
>> /usr/local/src?
>
> That will not make any difference. A standard user still doesn't have
> write access to that location.

Yes, I know that, that's not what I suggested it for.  It's just the
traditional place to put source, where people would go and look first.
 Putting examples in a directory writeable by everyone doesn't make
any sense.

> As far as I know, even with other products like Qt, GTK, Delphi which
> includes demos and the system is installed in a multi-user
> environment. Then if you want to compile and run a demo, you first
> have to copy the demo source directory to a location you have
> read/write access, then compile and run it from that new location.

Windows have the shared documents directory, which I believe is the
correct place to put examples.

Henry