Lazarus source can be installed in share because it is platform independent and can be shared nfs style over many OS and releases.
The platform specific binaries probably should not. Sam -----Original Message----- From: "Mattias Gaertner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: 08/01/07 01:16 Subject: Re: [lazarus] Lazarus makefile On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:07:03 +0100 Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some questions about the Lazarus Makefile's. > > First: why is lazarus installed in share? Historical reasons. Many programs are installed there under linux. > /usr/share is hard-coded in > Makefile.fpc, and so it's hard to change. But since there's compiled > code in lazarus, I would say that /usr/lib is the right place... Yes, at least the linux FHS seems to suggests this. > Second: If I change /usr/lib in Makefile.fpc and run fpcmake, that > works fine, but not on dual 32/64 bit linux systems. In that case it > should be /usr/lib64. Any idea how to solve this, except by using two > makefile.fpc's? Maybe with ifeq statements. Mattias _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
