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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 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.  :-(

Hehe, 

the architecture detection went wrong again. Check what 'arch' gives
on your system, and compare with the values in the setup script...

Michael.

> 
> 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 -
> >
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