Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-28 Thread Juha Manninen
> This is why somebody, who really succeeded in building a package for > his system, should share it with the community. The above could be > rephrased like "if you succeed in building ..., upload it to ... for use > by others". Yes. Debian / Ubuntu .dep package creation is documented in Gettin

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: Then it says "it is recommended to build a fpc package for your distribution (.deb or .rpm file)". Why would it be recommended? I tried to build such RPM package when installing FPC trunk for the first time, but I failed. This is why somebody, who really *succeeded* i

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-28 Thread Juha Manninen
> There is a option "Move" on the right menu, which asks for a new name > - not sure if the general public has access to complete the move > though. It worked, thanks! The old links are even forwarded to the new page. Juha -- ___ Lazarus mailing list L

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 28 June 2010 11:55, Juha Manninen wrote: > > BTW, is it possible to rename a wiki page (file)? I used CamelCase names when > I could have used spaces which are translated to underscores apparently. There is a option "Move" on the right menu, which asks for a new name - not sure if the general p

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-28 Thread Juha Manninen
I reordered the Getting_Lazarus page. I moved some platform specific parts to their own pages. For example there is a long story about installing the Lazarus release version for Ubuntu. Is it really so complicated? See: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LazarusReleaseUbuntu And I found the buil

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: There are many ways to compile and install FPC. You can use plain make (see below), but it is recommended to build a fpc package for your distribution (.deb or .rpm file). A fpc package allows to easily uninstall, upgrade and downgrade it and a package makes sure that a

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/27/2010 16:22, Juha Manninen wrote: Mattias Gärtner wrote : Then it says "it is recommended to build a fpc package for your distribution (.deb or .rpm file)". Why would it be recommended? I tried to build such RPM package when installing FPC trunk for the first time, but I failed. ... th

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Paul Ishenin
28.06.2010 2:32, Marco van de Voort пишет: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:40:11PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: -installs under Linux under /usr/local/lib, while the packages install under /usr/lib Depends on the distribution and package conventions of that package system. Can be fixed at least

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Juha Manninen
Mattias Gärtner wrote : >> Then it says "it is recommended to build a fpc package for your >> distribution (.deb or .rpm file)". >> Why would it be recommended? I tried to build such RPM package when >> installing FPC trunk for the first time, but I failed. > > ... then the rpm should be fixed.

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:40:11PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > -installs under Linux under /usr/local/lib, while the > packages install under /usr/lib Depends on the distribution and package conventions of that package system. -- ___ Lazarus mai

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:51:02 +0100 Chris Kirkpatrick wrote: > > > Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > For example because "make install" > > -does not update your fpc.cfg, > > -does not update the symlink under Linux (is this still the case?), > > -no uninstall > > -installs under Linux under /usr/l

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
Mattias Gaertner wrote: For example because "make install" -does not update your fpc.cfg, -does not update the symlink under Linux (is this still the case?), -no uninstall -installs under Linux under /usr/local/lib, while the packages install under /usr/lib In my experience, packages ins

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:34:26 +0300 Juha Manninen wrote: > I updated info about building and installing svn trunk version of FPC > compiler, based on mails from Marc and Graeme earlier. Here: > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#svn_trunk_version_of_fpc > > It is part of a l

[Lazarus] Wiki instructions for installing FPC trunk

2010-06-27 Thread Juha Manninen
I updated info about building and installing svn trunk version of FPC compiler, based on mails from Marc and Graeme earlier. Here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#svn_trunk_version_of_fpc It is part of a long messy page, Getting_Lazarus, which could be cleaned a lot. This i