[fpc-pascal] Compiling Lazarus and LCL using rebuilt FPC RTL

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:50:50 +0200
fpclist at silvermono.co.za wrote:

> On Thursday 11 June 2009 08:49:03 fpclist at silvermono.co.za wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Assuming that a FPC RTL rebuild has succeeded, can somebody please
> > describe the process of rebuilding Lazarus and the LCL using the
> > new FPC RTL?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nino
> 
> As the saying goes "Assumption is the mother of all ...."
> 
> I was under the impression that I was rebuilding the complete FPC
> RTL, but in reality it was not the case.
> 
> For the benefit of anyone out there that may not yet know how to do a
> RTL rebuild and is interested, I found the following method will no
> doubt make sure that the complete FPC RTL is rebuilt and used in the
> rebuilding of Lazarus and its LCL. (may be a pun in there somewhere)
> 
> Following, is as found on my system. Yours may be different.
> 
> from: /usr/share/fpcsrc/rtl run: make clean all install
> from: /usr/share/fpcsrc/packages run: make clean all install

These paths look like the installation paths of debian or rpm packages.
Doing a "make install" will overwrite the files of your package system.
The next remove or update will probably not do what you want.

 
> The new RTL files will be copied to:
> /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.2.5/units/i386-linux
> 
> Next, copy the files in the above directory (/usr/../units/i386-linux)
> into /usr/lib/fpc/2.2.5/units/i386-linux
> 
> Getting Lazarus to use the new FPC RTL:
> Allow Lazarus to rebuild the LCL and itself from within Lazarus or
> use Lazarus's make files.
> 
> That's it.

If you don't want to use the fpc/lazarus binary packages, then don't
install them. 
Install fpc via the tar, then checkout both svn and make install them -
just like most other linux software.
It is explained in the link I gave.

Mattias