In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said: > Marco van de Voort writes: > > > a 26MB snapshot is available at (all binaries, just needs a fpc.cfg) > > How do we test it? > I untared the file. > Went into snapshot/bin and tried "fpx hello.pas".. > Error: ppcx64 can't be executed, error message: Failed to execute "ppcx64", > error code: 127 > > I see it in snapshot/lib/fpc/2.3.1 > > Is it a matter of adding to path or installing and modifying a cfg? > The cfg should it go in /etc/ or in the same directory as the fpc program?
Well, this is the stuff the buildfaq reading was for :-) Everything below snapshot is to go into some prefix. IOW you can copy it into /usr/local or maintain it local. I usually choose local (e.g. ~/snapshot) and to reserve the real prefixes for releases. For local installations I then either symlink snapshot/bin to ~/bin (if I don't have a ~/bin), or make symlinks from ~/bin/<x> to ~/snapshot/bin/<x> I store a minimal configuration file in ~/.fpc.cfg : -Fu~/snapshot/lib/fpc/$FPCVERSION/units/$FPCTARGET/* -viwh Note again, I recommend trying to install local the first times till you get the hang of it, so that you don't accidentally mutilate global dirs. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
