[fpc-devel] Re: can't install binary FPC 2.2 under Linux

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi. I forgot to mention, I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 (if that helps).  I'm
going to try and manually unpack the .tar file and the internal
.tar.gz files and see how that goes.  :-(

Graeme.



On 13/09/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded FPC 2.2 binary for Linux from SourceForge.  I can't
> seem to install it?  What does that error message mean?  I don't do
> cross compiling and I run on a i386 computer (Intel P4 32bit
> processor).
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> graemeg at pluto:tmp$ sudo ./fpc-2.2.0.i386-linux.tar
> This shell script will attempt to install the Free Pascal Compiler
> version 2.2.0 with the items you select
>
> Install prefix (/usr or /usr/local)  [/usr/local] : /opt/fpc-2.2.0
> No native FPC found.
> For a proper installation of a cross FPC the installation of a native
> FPC is required.
> graemeg at pluto:tmp$
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> I've also tried specifying the /usr/local directory and still get the
> same error.
>
> --------------------------------------
> graemeg at pluto:tmp$ sudo ./fpc-2.2.0.i386-linux.tar
> This shell script will attempt to install the Free Pascal Compiler
> version 2.2.0 with the items you select
>
> Install prefix (/usr or /usr/local)  [/usr/local] :
> No native FPC found.
> For a proper installation of a cross FPC the installation of a native
> FPC is required.
> graemeg at pluto:tmp$
> ------------------------------------------
>
>
> For now I'll just check out the source from SVN and compile it
> manually - that always seem to work for me.
>
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>