We got answer from upstream that explains the issue. The IDE does not use /etc/fpc.cfg but /etc/fp.cfg which is not created by Debian package.
> > Can anyone using fp IDE check the following issue or at least let us > > know if it happens on stock FPC distributed binaries. > > The IDE does not use fpc.cfg, but fp.cfg. The default installer script > creates such a file in lib/fpc/$fpcversion/ide/text with appropriate > search paths for the default units. The ide can find it there. > > Note: if there is an existing existing fp.cfg in the current directory, > that will override the default one. This will probably be the case if > the IDE has been started before without it being able to find an > existing fp.cfg, because then it will ask to create one in the current > directory. So even if the package gets fixed, people may still have > problems afterwards if they don't delete local fp.cfg files (the same > goes for fp.dsk and fp.ini, but those are less likely to cause issues if > they're not based on the default ones). -- Cheers, Abou Al Montacir
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