G'day Lazarus FANS, The attached (small) .iso file *may* help! Although I don't recall whether twist [or not] I have Lazarus installed.
It's an .iso file created with my HP Laptop and a Ethernet cx to my desktop with an ethernet hub. I created it with my laptop and DVD-RW drive!!! GRIN Oppss!!! Google mail and me lost my changes!!!! Hope you like it! LUV Pew X On 20/03/2010, Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote: > waldo kitty schrieb: > >>> Another problem: how can a user rebuild Lazarus, when it has been >>> installed into /usr where the user has not enough rights. >> >> if this has been done, then it indicates that root installed Laz/FPC... >> that means that root has to do the rebuild, not the user(s)... > > This is how Lazarus is installed by default (distributed packages). This > may be okay for multi-user systems with a skilled administrator, but not > necessarily for the average user at home. All my current considerations > are about users (like me) without an skilled system administrator. > >> if they need to be able to rebuild Laz/FPC, they need to install it into >> their home directory for the necessary rights to be active... > > This requirement should be documented, including how to accomplish it. > The documentation could be restricted to how to use the repository, when > Lazarus ever has to be rebuilt after the first installation - if > that's the simplest way. > >> yes, i see what you are saying, though... the packages are configured to >> install to a central location for all to use and that means that they >> cannot to the rebuild... but they should not have to do any rebuild >> since the package should be stable... plus they are fully loaded with >> all the goodies and debug capabilities... this should them the ability >> to test and work with Laz/FPC... > > Remember that installing packages requires to rebuild Lazarus, so that a > private installation might be preferable as the default. While this is > not complicated for itself, it should be nice and easy to perform the > move from the original distribution to a private build. > >> /if/ they later reach a point where they need to be able to rebuild >> Laz/FPC or be able to compile for other platforms and such, _then_ they >> would install from the sources/SVN to their *home* directory and wade on >> into the really deep end of the pool... IIUC, they would only need to >> edit a couple of Laz/FPC specific files to change some directory entries >> to point at the new installation location in their home directory but >> that shouldn't be hard to do... > > It's not so hard for the second time, but for the first time it is. > Perhaps I see too many problems, I'll have to check the actual > procedures myself again. > > DoDi > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- With Best Regards, PEW { Peter Eric Williams } from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia My FREE Websites: http://pewink.org
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