Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 9:58 AM From: "Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel" <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>
>> interesting. the above script has been widely circulating on the lazarus/FPC >> forums, and to date none of >> the 'experts' there, including Marco, have suggest it is deficient. this >> silence disappoints me. > The script is ok to update fpc. And if you use lazarus from git then > lazarus and lazbuild automatically rebuild the lazarus packages. > The script is not fine in combination with the lazarus deb. >> [...] simply downloading the pre-compiled git version of anything is >> pointless > Where is this coming from? > I'm not aware of a pre-compiled git version of lazarus. > Clone the lazarus git and build it with "make distclean bigide". my mistake, i have never used the git repository, and just work from the three .deb packages from sourceforge. i assumed you meant that nightly builds existed and were available, and i should use these. i prefer to work with a non-moving target, that is the sourceforge releases. this way, others can duplicate exactly my environment, and see what i see. i also believe that the vast majority of users get their FPC and Lazarus from sourceforge, hence it is important that any patches can be applied to such installs. given that i have installed from the three .deb packages, how do i perform a rebuild of the Lazarus packages? do i add the line "make distclean bigide" to the end of Fred vS's script? cheers, rob :-) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
