[fpc-pascal] Linux Install: Is it me or the documentation? ;-)

[Alain Vitry]

Lev,

You  installed as root. The demo folders have root permissions.
Then you tried to compile as a user, and indeed permission to write  
the object was denied.
So you tried a sudo, which was a good idea, but all the environment  
information is not set properly in that case.

You may copy the example program to your user home folder, and set  
permissions properly (chown -R lev demo/*).
Or you may change permission in the folder you currently work in  
( chmod -R a+r *).

If this sound unfamiliar to you, you should read a primer on Unix  
permissions.

Hops this helps.
Alain

Le 30 oct. 06 à 00:01, Lev Lafayette a écrit :

> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:58 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Lev Lafayette wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> First let me say how pleased I am to discover FreePascal. 'Twas my
>>> favourite programming language way back around 1988-89, being the  
>>> last
>>> time I put my serious programming goggles on.
>>>
>>> So I'm trying to set this leopard up on Ubuntu (the Badger  
>>> variety) and
>>> am following the user manual.
>>>
>>> Downloaded the .tar file; extracted to a temporary directory. (p11)
>>>
>>> Ran the install script as root (or rather, equivalent thereof)
>>> sudo ./install.sh and accepted all defaults (p12)
>>>
>>> Ran the test 'fpc hello' (p14). It fails. Run it will full directory
>>> listing, even tho' config has been written to /etc. Still fails.
>>
>> Ehm. What is the error you get ?
>
>
> lev at hedgehog:/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units$ fpc hello
> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/20] for i386
> Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl
> Target OS: Linux for i386
> Compiling hello.pp
> hello.pp(6,3) Error: Can't create object file: hello.o
> hello.pp(6,3) Fatal: Can't create object hello.o
> hello.pp(6,3) Fatal: Compilation aborted
> Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you
> did not specify a source file to be compiled)
>
> Ran it as sudo as well
>
> lev at hedgehog:/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units$ sudo fpc hello
> Password:
> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/20] for i386
> Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl
> Target OS: Linux for i386
> Compiling hello.pp
> Linking hello
> hello.pp(6,3) Error: Util ld not found, switching to external linking
> Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you
> did not specify a source file to be compiled)
>
>
>>>
>>> Umm... Less than satisfactory, verdade?
>>
>> Definitely.
>> Please provide slightly more detail, and we'll see what we can
>> do to make it a satisfactory experience... :)
>>
>
>
> Excellent! I like this community already ;-)
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Lev
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