I got stuck with the symlinks. The level of indirection is rather complex.
Finally I 1. reinstalled v. 2.6.2 from scratch 2. copied directory zeosdbo from server A to server B 3. copied file /etc/fpc.cfg from server A to server B now (finally!) everything works as expected. Thank you Peppe 2017-05-07 17:13 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>: > > > On Sun, 7 May 2017, duilio foschi wrote: > >> I am have FPC v. 2.6.2 installed on linux/ubuntu server A. >> >> I am sure I did some change to zeos library in server A, but I cannot >> remember details. >> >> I'd like to have the same version of FPC installed on a new >> linux/ubuntu server B. >> >> I found that FPC v. 3.0.2 was already installed on server B. >> >> Using my poor skills in linux, I took the following steps: >> >> 1. deleted directory /usr/lib/fpc/3.0.2 of server B > > > That was not necessary. You can perfectly have 2 versions of FPC > co-existing. > >> 2. copied directory /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.2 of server A into server B (used >> scp) >> >> Now a few strange things happen: >> >> a. if I try to run fpc from - say - /usr/lib/cgi-bin , I get the message >> Error: ppcx64 can't be executed, error message: Failed to execute >> "ppcx64", error code: 127 > > > Did you correct the symlink /usr/bin/ppcx64 ? it should point to > /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.2/ppcx64 > > >> >> b. if I try to run fpc from /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.2, a lot of Zeos lib >> units are compiled EVERY TIME. This for sure was not happening before >> (see below). >> >> I did something silly, right ? > > > Ill-advised, perhaps. > > >> Any help in order to fix the install ? > > > The above should help you to get things compiling again. > > About recompilation of zeos units; 2.6.2 may work differently to 3.0.2 > regarding circular units which causes a recompile. Or the zeeos units in > your search path are the old ones. > > Michael. > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
