[fpc-pascal] FPC and Mac OS X 10.5

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:

>
> On 16 Jul 2008, at 13:15, Mattias Gärtner wrote:
>
> > Zitat von Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
> >
> >> This is strange, since the FPC config files all use $fpcversion to
> >> set
> >> the unit paths.
> >
> > BTW, for some reasons 'make install' did not recreate the /etc/
> > fpc.cfg.
>
> That is by design. /etc/fpc.cfg is only created by the installers of
> releases on our website.
>
> > I did it
> > manually by calling samplecfg with $fpcversion. But it did not make
> > any
> > difference. The errors stayed the same.
>
> Well, if it found units before you did that, you probably had
> a .fpc.cfg somewhere in your home directory already.

Maybe. I didn't check.
I called samplecfg first as normal user and so samplecfg ignored my parameters
and wrote the config to my home directory. A strange automatism. I deleted it
and ran it again with sudo.
But if there was an ~/.fpc.cfg, then it could only be created by 2.2.0 or the
2.2.2rc1 snapshot. Maybe through the above automatism?
But they all used $fpcversion, don't they? If yes, then all fpc versions should
create a useful fpc.cfg?


> >> There was also no 2.2.2rc1 release for Mac OS X
> >> (although it may have been distributed along with some Lazarus
> >> snapshot(s)).
> >
> > Yes, I had to use the lazarus snapshot of fpc as start compiler,
> > because the
> > 2.2.0 failed to compile fpc 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 (Access Violation). What
> > is the
> > current startup compiler for Mac OS X 10.5?
>
> That issue is documented on the FPC Mac OS X download pages and 2.2.1
> starting packages for Mac OS X 10.5.x are are provided there.

Where?

I did this: drove browser to www.freepascal.org, click on download on the right
panel, then Binaries / intel/i386 / Mac OS X, choose as mirror Sourceforge, and
there is only the 2.2.0 version.


Mattias