[fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 19:55, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>> That means that this problem wouldn't be happening if those snapshots were
>> properly installed.
>>
>> Every succesful "make all" generates a data2inc, and every "make install"
>> installs it into the relevant "bin" directory.
>
> Indeed it exists.
>
> "properly installed"
> They are installed with "make install", but with INSTALL_PREFIX, as
> explained, in my early days, I got burned more than often by conflicting
> versions. So I *always* install to a custom location, that is not in the
> normal $path.
> That way, if I choose to work with one version of fpc, there is no way it
> could possible in any way whatsoever find anything from any other
> installation.
>
> And except for the hickups when building fpc, this has worked very very
> well.

I do the same and always worked. I never modified my PATH!

Marcos Douglas