Jonas: Thanks, I'll use fpc -iV from now on. But "make install" still puts an fpc binary in /usr/local/bin that reports "2.7.1" and then overwrites *something* so that a second fpc call reports "2.4.4".
Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>wrote: > > On 31 Oct 2011, at 18:29, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > > Jonas, "make install" does, however, overwrite /usr/local/bin/fpc, which > is > > not a symlink, with an old version during install. Try running fpc > -version > > halfway and after "make install". > > The "fpc" binary does not have a version number. It reports the version > number of the compiler binary that it finds. > > > Jonas > > PS: "-version" does not mean "print the version". It means enable the e, > r, s, i, o and n verbosity switches (but your /etc/fpc.cfg probably > contains the -l switch, and the logo includes the version number). -iV is > the command line option to make the compiler prints just its > version._______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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