[fpc-devel] One fpc.cfg per fpc version

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 16.02.2014 19:46, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
>>> I played with this in 1.9.2 times iirc. 
>>>
>>> IIRC the principle was developed for cases where every version installed
>>> into a prefix with make INSTALL INSTALL_PREFIX=~/somethingversion.  (so that
>>> you also had multiple bin directories and everything was fully separated).
>>
>> Yes, for example make install INSTALL_PREFIX=~/2.6.2 installs to
>> ~/2.6.2/lib/fpc/2.6.2
>> Which looks odd.
> 
> For that it does. If you however install FPC in /usr/local (like the ports
> dir) it make sense. Binaries end up in $PREFIX/bin, config in $PREFIX/etc
> and rest in $PREFIX/lib. relative to the bin, etc is at ../etc.
> 
> (and *BSDs have etc dirs in other prefixes too, distributing the config
> files, /etc mostly contained config files from the base distro)
> 
> I don't think it was ever meant for distribution conforming installs, since
> they don't carter for multiversion systems.

You can also have easily different gcc versions at least on linux.