On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > I have spent the whole afternoon trying to install fpc. :( > > > > First I downloaded the .rpm files. The compiler and docs install fine but > > the source doesn't install anything and there is no error or warning. > > The source RPM installs an archive file in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES > you must unpack this archive yourself. This is standard behaviour for RPM. >
No it doesn't. That's why I stated the source doesn't install anything. Due to the problems I looked in the install script and found a reference to /src (which I guessed is appended to the main install dir /usr) and looked there too, but nothing is installed. There is no packages directory created. > > So I tried the same source rpm from a different mirror with the same > > result. > > > > So I removed those, downloaded the new 2.1.4a archive, unpacked it and > > ran the install script (which I had to interrupt and run a second time as > > root) which ran without showing an error and yet I still have no source > > installed. > > That is because it does not install the sources. The .tar.gz does not > contain the sources: it would more than double the size. The sources > are available as a separate download. > > Michael. According to the downloads page the .tar is one big file with "everything in 1 big package", or the other options are .rpm files. There is no tar for just the sources. I did extract the source tar from the source rpm, but I don't know where it should be installed. Previously fpcsrc was installed in /usr/share/fpcsrc, if that is now different, shouldn't a change such as this be documented? neal. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
