On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2010, at 19:03, Brian Winfrey wrote: > >> What version should fpc display (Revision: 16393). >> >> When I get latest and make /usr/bin/fpc is at version 2.4.2. >> >> fpc -vut dummy.pas >> ... >> Compiler: /usr/lib/fpc/2.4.2/ppc386 >> Using executable path: /usr/lib/fpc/2.4.2/ >> Using unit path: /usr/lib/fpc/2.4.2/units/i386-linux/rtl/ >> ... >> >> The output indicates that 2.4.3 directories are created and 2.4.3 >> compiler is used. >> >> I run >> make clean build && make install INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" > > There are two separate things: the installed FPC versions, and the default > FPC version. The default FPC version is determined by the symbolic links > /usr/bin/ppc386, /usr/bin/ppcx64 etc (or /usr/local/bin/ppc386 etc on > non-Linux). A "make install" will add a new FPC version, but it does not > make it the default. If you want to do that, change the symlinks to point to > the new compiler version. The "fpc" utility is only a wrapper that calls > through to ppc386/ppcx64/... and has no version itself. > > > Jonas > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
I thought there was a sym link involved, but I mis-remembered it being fpc. That clears it up thanks. Brian _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal