On 02 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm > installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be > pushing all this software hard and will probably be coming here for help.
Then this is indeed the place to be! > First problem: I downloaded the 32bit Linux (fpc-2.4.0.i386-linux.tar) and > unpacked it into "~/ins/fpc 2.4.0" and ran "sudo ./install.sh". Immediately I > ran into a problem because the directory I was installing from contained an > embedded space in the name. > > It really should be documented as a requirement to not have embedded spaces. > Or, better yet, the install script should be updated to allow for them. Or, > at least, the install script should be updated to detect them and stop > gracefully. > > How can we get this done? Please file a bug report at http://bugs.freepascal.org > As far as I can see there is NO documentation in the installation tarball. > Just the install script. Can't a readme file be added with this little detail? Please file another bug report at http://bugs.freepascal.org :) Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
