[fpc-pascal]Lazarus +FPC

[A.J. Venter]

Actually my problem was with units. All my compiles failed on  unit
dependancies. I tried to recompile the units it was looking for, and
theb copied the .ppu and .o files to /usr/lib/fpc/1.0.7/units/linux, but
it still could not find them. copying them into the source directory
likewize failed.

I can only imagine that either the fpc or the lazarus rpms created  a
congiguration filed that caused these typical locations to be ignored by
the unit search routine.

I suspected thus, that the compatibility was broken between standard FPC
and lazarus at the configuration level, which means it should be
fixable.

While then on the topic, when I start lazarus it tells me that some
functionality will be unavailable because it could not find the fpc
source directory. What does this mean ? That I need to install the FPC
sources in order to use lazarus ?

TIA
A.J.
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 17:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:54:48 +1000
> > James Mills <prologic at prologitech.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:41:17PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:52:31PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > How much compatibility is broken between fpc-1.0.6 and fpc-laz 1.0.7
> > > > > > ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Why can't Lazarus be run with just the normal FPC compiler anyway ?
> > > > > Why does it have to have a specially built compiler ?
> > > >
> > > > In general, there is no reason, just that always small problems pop up
> > > > when a large project as Lazarus is made.
> > > >
> > > > Delphi incompabilities and  recompiling problems (circular reference)
> > > > that are dectected and fixed after a release have been the usual reasons
> > > > for requiring snapshots.
> > > >
> > > > Though the amount of problems seems to decrease with each new fixes
> > > > version, and I hope that trend continues
> > >
> > > In future will we see Lazurs start to work with the normal FPC compilers
> > > without the additional need to download and install the a specially
> > > built compiler for it ?
> >
> > This is always the goal.
> > In fact the last recommended compiler for lazarus is nearly 6 months old. As
> > soon as the offcial 1.0.8 is there, it will become the recommended compiler.
> > There are some remaining bugs in the current 1.0.7, which would be nice, if
> > they could be fixed before releasing 1.0.8: typeinfo for single and double.
> > If no one is doing that then I will send a patch for it.
> 
> Please do. I'll apply it.
> 
> Michael.
> 
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