[Lazarus] FPC 2.7.1 and console output

[Sven Barth]

On 03.12.2014 20:58, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 12/3/2014 1:58 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>> Am 03.12.2014 18:33 schrieb "waldo kitty" <wkitty42 at windstream.net>:
>>  >
>>  > On 12/3/2014 11:26 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> Am 03.12.2014 16:51 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich"
>> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>
>>  >>  > No, the FP IDE. It has become almost useless, most options are
>> read-only :-(
>>  >>
>>  >> You need to build the FP included with trunk, because the compiler
>> is statically
>>  >> linked into FP. This is usually done when you do a "make all" or
>> at least when
>>  >> you do a "make install".
>>  >
>>  > ahhh... it would be nice to be able to specify which fpc to use in
>> the same
>>  > way that one can do with lazarus and other tools ;)
>>
>> Considering that FP has a much smaller user base than Lazarus (not to
>> speak of
>> features even), it's just not worth it.
>
> ;)  i guess my current method whereby i change the path to point to the
> desired FPC version is the only real way... i have a little script that
> i use, runfp, which sets up my environment... it requires the version of
> FPC i want to use to be specified on the command line...
>
> eg:
>    runfp 2.6.2
>    runfp 2.6.4
>    runfp trunk
>
> but using "trunk" messes up things that use $FPVERSION as that requires
> that i have that version of FPC in a dedicated directory other than
> trunk... but hey, it works for now and i only have to make sure that my
> FP.CFG and similar files are correct for the version i'm currently
> playing with...
>

I have the same, just with 2.7.1 instead of trunk ;) Though I also 
replace my .fpc.cfg which is a symlink to ".config/fpc/NAME.cfg" (where 
NAME is the one I pass to my "switch-fpc" script :) )

Regards,
Sven