On 19 Jan 2009, at 18:05, Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:

One of the users reporting problems did search for as, and found it in /developer/usr/bin/as! So Xcode
was installed, and "as" was installed, but not in /usr/bin/as!

Maybe Apple has changed the paths in some Xcode version? I have no problems on my MBP/10.5 though.

Perhaps an alias from /usr/bin/as would help? Or is there anything else that FPC needs?

As of Xcode 3.x, you can install multiple versions of Xcode at the same time on a system. To allow for this, Xcode can install everything it needs into a a subdirectory, without installing anything globally on the system (i.e., nothing under /usr, /var, ..., only things under whatever directory you decide to install Xcode in).

However, for compatibility with standard unix development environments and configure/makefile-based source distributions, you still have the option to also install the command line utilities (such as automake, autoconf, as, ld, gcc, cpp, ...) globally under /usr.

Now, I am pretty certain that this is done by default and that this is only not done if you choose a custom install and deselect that option. I don't have an Xcode installer lying around to verify that though.

If it is not the default anymore, I'm not sure how FPC itself could solve it, because as mentioned earlier, you can install Xcode anywhere. I could add a default configuration option so that FPC also searches under /Developer/usr/bin for the assembler/linker, but that would not necessarily be enough. On the other hand, the whole reason of existence of that Xcode installation option is exactly for programs such as FPC.


Jonas

PS: the option to tell FPC where to search for as and ld is -FD
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