Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:40:08AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: None of the OS packaging mechanisms (rpm, .deb) allow you to do a user install (well, not without very complicated tricks) FreeBSD does, but maybe that is not really an user i

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:40:08AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > None of the OS packaging mechanisms (rpm, .deb) allow you to do a user install > (well, not without very complicated tricks) FreeBSD does, but maybe that is not really an user install. In fact one creates a second package ad

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/5/2010 04:40, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, waldo kitty wrote: basically "per user"... The FPC installs for *unix allow you to install wherever you want, provided you have permissions for it. i've not seen that when i've installed the Laz packages that i've toyed with o

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, waldo kitty wrote: On 6/4/2010 07:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, 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

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 04.06.2010, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > As a side note: > On my own *nix systems I always create a 'developer' user group and > then give that group read/write access to /opt. So in a way it's > similar to installing to $HOME. I hardly ever install custom software > to

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 07:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, 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

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 06:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 4 June 2010 06:32, waldo kitty wrote: 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 inst

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:40:30AM -0400, waldo kitty wrote: > >> 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.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/4/2010 02:53, Marco van de Voort wrote: 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

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, 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 oth

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 06:32, waldo kitty wrote: > > 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..

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
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

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-03 Thread waldo kitty
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

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-03 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Mittwoch, den 02.06.2010, 08:53 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi, > > Are there any developers using Lazarus under FreeBSD? I do. > Does Lazarus support FreeBSD? I simply works when used with the matching compiler. > Somebody asking me this question today, but I > couldn't actually an

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Are there any developers using Lazarus under FreeBSD? Does Lazarus support FreeBSD? Somebody asking me this question today, but I couldn't actually answer them. Looking at the release downloads page, it seems FreeBSD is not supported (there is

[Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

2010-06-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Are there any developers using Lazarus under FreeBSD? Does Lazarus support FreeBSD? Somebody asking me this question today, but I couldn't actually answer them. Looking at the release downloads page, it seems FreeBSD is not supported (there is no binary downloads for that platform, unless you