Re: [Lazarus] How to pass path of fpc to make command, and some thoughts on Lazarus/FPC Installation.

2010-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
On 25.09.2010 22:07, Frank Church wrote: 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

Re: [Lazarus] How to pass path of fpc to make command, and some thoughts on Lazarus/FPC Installation.

2010-09-25 Thread Frank Church
On 25 September 2010 20:33, Sven Barth wrote: > On 24.09.2010 21:53, Frank Church wrote: > >> >> >> On 24 September 2010 16:45, Sven Barth > > wrote: >>There should be a makeskel or similar binary in fpc240/bin/fpc which >>you can call to create a confi

Re: [Lazarus] How to pass path of fpc to make command, and some thoughts on Lazarus/FPC Installation.

2010-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
On 24.09.2010 21:53, Frank Church wrote: On 24 September 2010 16:45, Sven Barth mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com>> 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

Re: [Lazarus] How to pass path of fpc to make command, and some thoughts on Lazarus/FPC Installation.

2010-09-24 Thread Frank Church
On 24 September 2010 16:45, Sven Barth wrote: > Am 24.09.2010 17:25, schrieb Frank Church: > > 1. The fpc executable is installed in ~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/bin/fpc >> When I execute ~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/bin/fpc, the first 3 lines of >> output say: >> >> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.4-3

Re: [Lazarus] How to pass path of fpc to make command, and some thoughts on Lazarus/FPC Installation.

2010-09-24 Thread Sven Barth
Am 24.09.2010 17:25, schrieb Frank Church: 1. The fpc executable is installed in ~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/bin/fpc When I execute ~/LazarusInstalls/fpc240/bin/fpc, the first 3 lines of output say: Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.4-3 [2009/06/03] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2008 by Florian Klaemp

[Lazarus] How to pass path of fpc to make command, and some thoughts on Lazarus/FPC Installation.

2010-09-24 Thread Frank Church
I am trying to compile Lazarus from source using a different compiler and I have hit a snag. These are the steps followed so far, but I need to pass the path of the new fpc to the Lazarus make command. #create build and installation directories mkdir ~/LazarusBuilds mkdir ~/LazarusInstalls #fpc