On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:32:23AM -0400, waldo kitty wrote: > On 6/3/2010 14:33, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > For practical reason it has always been the better way to install fpc > > and lazarus per user, not globally in the systems /usr/local tree. It is > > easier to swap compilers or mess with the sources of something that > > otherwise would be r/o. Concluding there is no need for a binary package > > if you ask me, I wouldn't use it - although I do use a precompiled fpc. > > what would it take for the various *nix flavor maintainers to fix their > install > scripts so that FPC and/or Lazarus were installed in this manner? it would > definitely fix a lot of headaches when it comes to installing the prepared > release packages...
I always do install them to some prefix (e.g. ~/fpc240) and then symlink the necessary files to ~/bin and ~/etc -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
