[Lazarus] Bug 0022814: fpc executable's path should be relative if fpc is present in the env path

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:34:42 +0300
patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/12 21:07, Sven Barth wrote:
>[...]
> > You can pass the option "-Xp/some/path" to fpc to tell it to look for 
> > ppcXXX in that specific directory. It will look there first, then in 
> > the path of the fpc binary and then in PATH.
> This is interesting! If we can specify in the IDE options the relative 
> path to move from the fpc binary folder (ex: 
> /home/me/Programs/fpc/$FPC_VER/lib/fpc/$FPC_VER) to the actual compiler 
> folder (ex: /home/me/Programs/fpc/$FPC_VER/bin), then the IDE can call 
> <fpc bin folder>fpc -Xp<relative path>.
> 
> Since all fpc installations have the same relative path, then it becomes 
> enough to specify that relative path once in the IDE options so that 
> changing the fpc binary path is enough for all purposes. By default, 
> that path is ../lib/fpc/$(FPCVER).

Maybe you can add this to your fpc.cfg? A normal fpc.cfg already
contains a -XP.

Mattias