On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:58 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Lev Lafayette wrote: > > > > > First let me say how pleased I am to discover FreePascal. 'Twas my > > favourite programming language way back around 1988-89, being the last > > time I put my serious programming goggles on. > > > > So I'm trying to set this leopard up on Ubuntu (the Badger variety) and > > am following the user manual. > > > > Downloaded the .tar file; extracted to a temporary directory. (p11) > > > > Ran the install script as root (or rather, equivalent thereof) > > sudo ./install.sh and accepted all defaults (p12) > > > > Ran the test 'fpc hello' (p14). It fails. Run it will full directory > > listing, even tho' config has been written to /etc. Still fails. > > Ehm. What is the error you get ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units$ fpc hello Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/20] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Linux for i386 Compiling hello.pp hello.pp(6,3) Error: Can't create object file: hello.o hello.pp(6,3) Fatal: Can't create object hello.o hello.pp(6,3) Fatal: Compilation aborted Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled) Ran it as sudo as well [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units$ sudo fpc hello Password: Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/20] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl Target OS: Linux for i386 Compiling hello.pp Linking hello hello.pp(6,3) Error: Util ld not found, switching to external linking Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled) > > > > Umm... Less than satisfactory, verdade? > > Definitely. > Please provide slightly more detail, and we'll see what we can > do to make it a satisfactory experience... :) > Excellent! I like this community already ;-) All the best, Lev _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
