[fpc-pascal] Installer (2.6.4 win32) and path issues

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 14/03/2014 14:23, Bart wrote:
> I installed 2.6.4 for win32.
> I removed the 2.6.4rc1 installation.
> After that I wanted to rebuild Lazarus, so I did a "make clean all" in
> Lazarus dir, but got only errors.
> This was because make was now the make from D7, because the installer
> appended the path to fpc (so it was last).
> Easily fixed of course.
> 
> I would have expected that the isntaller would (or ask me if I wanted
> to) put the path to the new fpc in place of the path of the old fpc:

I wouldn't expect the installer to automatically put your new fpc before
anything else as it can mess up batch scripts that expect certain
binaries etc (say Delphi make or some special grep).

As for whether it should ask... well, perhaps, but that does complicate
things...