On 25 September 2010 20:33, Sven Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24.09.2010 21:53, Frank Church wrote: > >> >> >> On 24 September 2010 16:45, Sven Barth <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> There should be a makeskel or similar binary in fpc240/bin/fpc which >> you can call to create a config skeleton (you might call it with -h >> to see its help). >> >> >> I think the command in question is 'samplecfg'. It also generates some >> fp.xxx files under ~/.fp/. I hope they are for the command line version. >> Could they possibly interfere with other versions of FreePascal I might >> be using? >> > > As I'm now on my Linux PC again, I checked that: it is makeskel in > ~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/bin/makeskel. The help can be queried by using "-h" > or "--help" as parameter. > > makeskel has a whole lot of options but none of them mention fpc.cfg. Do you have a sample command? It appears to be some kind of xml generator. > FPC reads by default the configuration file from ~/.fpc.cfg (and > /etc/fpc.cfg, but I'm not using that one). So every FPC version will use > that file if it exists and you didn't tell it to exclude the default file > with "-n" (I forgot that below). > > But you can use the $fpcversion macros in the config file to "generalize" > that (might be usable with the "one prefix" configuration below). > > > I am working through you suggestions and I notice that the 2.4.0 >> specific files seem to be in a directory lib/fpc/2.4.0 under >> ~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240, which contains a 'share' and a 'bin' >> directory.'share' contains a 'doc/2.4.0' directory. >> >> Does that mean that the I could also use make install >> INSTALL_PREFIX='~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240' command to install all the fpc >> versions into the same directory without their executable's clashing? >> > > > > I take it that the 'bin' folder in the INSTALL_PREFIX contains utilities > > which can be shared among the different installations, and that the > > 'share' folder will also have different docs for the versions. > > > > Yes, the utilities in "bin" can be shared, but you need to make sure that > they are from the newest version you are using, because the compiler might > rely on them. > > And I just noticed: you can force "fpc" to look in a certain directory for > the compiler instead of relying on path: > > fpc -Xp~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/lib/fpc/2.4.0 {other parameters} > > will search for the "ppc*" in the version 2.4.0 directory, while > > fpc -Xp~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/lib/fpc/2.5.1 {other parameters} > I have tested this and it works but it does not accept the ~ . It needs the full path name, it also rather odd because it does not allow the use of a space between the option and the parameter. Can this be set in the Lazarus environment as well, for all projectsm and Lazarus IDE rebuilds? > > will search in the 2.5.1 directory > > > Regards, > Sven > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
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