[Lazarus] FPC Source Error: directory not found

[Eric Kom]

On 08/11/2012 14:30, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> Eric Kom<erickom at metropolitancollege.co.za>  hat am 8. November 2012 um 13:11
> geschrieben:
>> On 08/11/2012 13:39, Bernd wrote:
>>> 2012/11/8 Eric Kom<erickom at metropolitancollege.co.za>:
>>>
>>>> After changed the path to /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.7.1/
>>> This is not the source directory.
>>>
>>> Judging from your previous pots you have compiled fpc from svn and
>>> sucessfully installed it. make install will only install the binaries
>>> and compiled units where they belong, it will not install the fpc
>>> source.
>> That's make sense.
>>> But the good news is you don't actually need to install it into any
>>> special place, the svn folder where you checked out fpc trunk is
>>> perfectly ok already. Simply point Lazarus to the folder that contains
>>> the fpc sources from svn and Lazarus will find what it needs there.
>> I pointed directly to the fpc/rtl/ directory, still the warning rtl
>> directory not fund.
> rtl is just one sub folder of fpc.
> Point it to the fpc directory.
>
> Any suggestions how to improve the error message to make this more clear?
Thanks a lot for your help everything is fine now
>
> Mattias
>
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