[Lazarus] Using different FPC versions

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, patspiper wrote:

>> Once this is implemented, it can be done by "additions and overrides" too.
>
> Although it is a welcome feature, it will make the usage really complicated 
> considering build modes might cater for debug/release, FPC version, 
> win/linux, etc...
>
> I instead propose to have a field next to the compiler path in the IDE 
> options that accepts fpc's -Xp parameter. Xp allows one to specify the 
> relative folder of the actual compiler (ppcxxx) with respect to the fpc 
> executable. That would work well since each ppcxxx's location is fixed with 
> respect to its associated fpc executable.

That assumption is not correct on Unix.

Michael.