On Fri, 20 May 2011 20:43:01 +0300 "Juha (gmail)" <juha.mannine...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner kirjoitti perjantai, 20. toukokuuta 2011 15:16:30: > > "Juha (gmail)" <juha.mannine...@gmail.com> hat am 20. Mai 2011 um 13:07 > > > Installing and updating both FPC and Lazarus is still a major obstacle > > > for many people. We must improve things to make the first impression > > > smoother. > > > > For example? > > Some strange error pop up like #19289: Error on rebuild > > /usr/lib64/lazarus/ide/lazarus.pp(130,1) Error: Can't call the resource > compiler "/usr/bin/fpcres", switching to external mode What could be the reason for this? What can be done to help solving this? > It is a single case, but the forum had many complaints when people updated > from 0.9.28 to 0.9.30. Also when people try to compile trunk and they had a > release version earlier, they often have problems. > A typical one is: > can't find unit xxx needed by unit yyy. There are more than 20 reasons for this. I started a page for this. Feel free to improve the page. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Unit_not_found_-_How_to_find_units Lazarus has a test button checking for several misconfigurations and there is a quickfix item. Feel free to improve them. > Those people have usually cleaned their file system and deleted local config > files. So, updating seems to be a bigger problem than a fresh install. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
