On Sunday 10 June 2007 13:20, Daniël Mantione wrote: > Op Sun, 10 Jun 2007, schreef pineal: > > 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. > > /usr/src/packages/SOURCES should already exist. If it doesn't your system > uses a non standard RPM location; you will find the source in this non > standard location in such case. > > > > 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. > > On http://www.freepascal.org/download.var, there is a link to the sources > download, and yes, it is a tar. > > > 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? > > Install it wherever you like, the compiler doesn't look for the sources > during normal operation. I suggest $HOME/fpcsource. > > Daniël
Hi Daniel, OK, I finally found the src tar mentioned and it contains everything by the looks of it, including an install script so I shall remove everything so far and try a fresh install from this. *But*, please note when I stated nothing was installed from the source rpm file, it did not get put somewhere else, *nothing* was installed! neal. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
