[Lazarus] Cannot find unit lNet when building project

[Sven Barth]

Am 15.01.2016 16:08 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" <
markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk>:
>
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:50:35 +0100
>> Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [...](AFAIK "fppkg install lnet").
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>> It is a bit confusing, that lnet is in FPC sources, but needs to be
>> installed by fppkg.
>
>
> I agree. Does anybody know the historical reason for this?

fppkg needs socket support, but that was needed before our own
implementation was ready enough, so lnet was imported directly into fppkg
as to avoid the appearance that lnet is distributed in the fpc sources.

Regards,
Sven
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