[Lazarus] Building and starting Lazarus on Raspberry Pi2 with Raspbian Jessie

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:39:24 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

>I simply used the standard 1.4 sources. And I'm pretty sure I've already 
>told you that.

Will Lazarus 1.4.x work with FPC 3.1.1?
Or do I have to scrap all of what I have done and start over?

>>> $ svn ls http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags
>>> ..
>>> lazarus_1_4/
>>> lazarus_1_4_2/
>>> lazarus_1_4_4/     <--- Most recent
>>> lazarus_1_4_RC1/
>>> lazarus_1_4_RC2/
>>> lazarus_1_4_RC3/

I guess I would need 1.4.4 then, or is that what you get from 1.4?

>The problem with Subversion is that the revision number and tagged 
>releases are distinct, so except in the case of trunk it's difficult to 
>say "get 1.4.4, then step back one revision".
>
>In the case of trunk (looking at an arbitrary machine here)...
>
>$ cd /usr/local/share/lazarus-trunk
>$ svn info

Here is what I currently have in the lazarus dir:
pi at rpi2-jessie ~/development/lazarus $ svn info
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: /home/pi/development/lazarus
URL: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk
Relative URL: ^/trunk
Repository Root: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus
Repository UUID: 4005530d-fff6-0310-9dd1-cebe43e6787f
Revision: 50059
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: juha
Last Changed Rev: 50059
Last Changed Date: 2015-10-14 18:39:48 +0200 (Wed, 14 Oct 2015)

So I am on trunk...

>
># Step back one revision:
>$ svn up -r 40412

OK, that is when you use the revision number, what about the tag name?

I have googled for how to move to a particular Subversion tag (aka
branch).
I found this webpabe:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s05.html

When trying to understand the concept I wound up with this command:

svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/lazarus_1_4_4

Executed inside the already checked out trunk copy, would this get me
to the tag lazarus_1_4_4?

Or is it better to just delete the development/lazarus dir and then do
a checkout from development? Like this:
cd /home/pi/development
rm -r lazarus
svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/lazarus_1_4_4 lazarus
cd lazarus
make clean bigide

Last question:
I have seen different suggested locations for lazarus here.

Juha suggested:
~/development/lazarus

but your example shows:
/usr/local/share/lazarus-trunk

and the tutorial I started with uses:
/usr/local/lazarus

This confuses me a lot, what is the "standard" way of locating
programs like Lazarus (and fpc for that matter)?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden