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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:41:45 +0100
Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 17.02.2014 12:16 schrieb "Mattias Gaertner" <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> > > What more do you need ?
> >
> > I'm investigating what Lazarus needs to support to switch fpc versions
> > more easily. That's why I'm collecting all the possibilities how people
> > install multiple versions of fpc. I'm puzzled of the amount of different
> > approaches - I thought two were enough. I wonder if some of them exists
> > only because the user did not know the alternatives.
> 
> I can add my own flavor as well. :D
> 
> I have fpc installed in /mnt/data/applications/$FPCVERSION with the usual
> dir structure underneath. In ~/.bin I have symlinks for fpc, fpcres,
> fpcmake and various ppcXXX. The directory is also in PATH. In ~/.config/fpc
> I have various fpc.$FPCVERSION.cfg and ~/.fpc.cfg is a symlink as well. All
> these symlinks are updated with a switch-fpc script that gets the version
> to symlink to as argument.

For Lazarus switching should work without invoking a script or
changing a file. Only environment variables and parameters.

Mattias