Am 16.02.2014 19:46, schrieb Marco van de Voort: > In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said: >>> I played with this in 1.9.2 times iirc. >>> >>> IIRC the principle was developed for cases where every version installed >>> into a prefix with make INSTALL INSTALL_PREFIX=~/somethingversion. (so that >>> you also had multiple bin directories and everything was fully separated). >> >> Yes, for example make install INSTALL_PREFIX=~/2.6.2 installs to >> ~/2.6.2/lib/fpc/2.6.2 >> Which looks odd. > > For that it does. If you however install FPC in /usr/local (like the ports > dir) it make sense. Binaries end up in $PREFIX/bin, config in $PREFIX/etc > and rest in $PREFIX/lib. relative to the bin, etc is at ../etc. > > (and *BSDs have etc dirs in other prefixes too, distributing the config > files, /etc mostly contained config files from the base distro) > > I don't think it was ever meant for distribution conforming installs, since > they don't carter for multiversion systems.
You can also have easily different gcc versions at least on linux. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
