[Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

[Juha Manninen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even if the original make was done as su?

No, then the generated files are owned by root and cannot be deleted
by normal users.
You should delete those files and switch to a normal user.
Building any programs as root is unusual and not recommended.

> In any case given that I have a 3.1.1 fpc compiler (also built and
> installed as su) and have built the Lazarus IDE from trunk sources
> using the commands shown, can I then just do a svn update and then
> issue make as pi?

Yes, after you have deleted the generated files which are owned by root.

Juha