[fpc-devel] Re-installing fpc

[Henry Vermaak]

On 14 March 2011 09:48, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
> I re-installed Linux, trashing the root director<y while keeping the user's
> home directories.
>
> Now I need to re-install fpc (which I provide the newest svn version to all
> users in /usr/bin).
>
> In one of the home directories I have the svn and an older fpc version to
> compile it.
>
> I can do
>
> sudo make clean all FPC=/home/mschnell/Downloads/fpc/ppc386

There is no need to build as root.  This is a very bad idea.

>
> To compile fpc just fine.
>
> But when I tried to install fpc to /usr/bin with (as root)
>
> make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
>
> I dot some an error message about something missing, but not saying what
> would be missing where).

It's hard to tell without the error message.

Henry