[fpc-other] rebuild FreePascal in FreeBSD

[Tomas Hajny]

papelhigienico at gmail.com wrote:


> I'm newbie in freepascal lists and in Freepascal Unix, and if this
> question
> doesn't make sense for this list, please ignore!

I believe that fpc-pascal would be the best choice (this one is for
discussions only partly related to FPC).


> I downloaded files fpc.zip and fpcbuild.zip from
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v23/source/.
>
> Which of them I will use to rebuild Freepascal? I used fpcbuild.zip, but
> only the sources of freepascal are instaled as 2.3.1, the compiler
> continue
> as 2.2.0 . What I have to do to build Freepascal version 2.3.1?

I believe that "make all install" in the unpacked directory of either of
these ZIPs should do it normally (I'm no FreeBSD user, though).

Tomas