[fpc-pascal] Re: RE : Re: RE : FPCUp FPC/Lazarus installer/updater: first Linux/Windows version released

[Mattias Gaertner]

Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> hat am 11. Februar 2012 um
08:28 geschrieben:

> On 10-2-2012 18:23, Ludo Brands wrote:
> >>> - (I hesitated to put this in the category "bugs") lazarus is
> >>> configured to use (default on ubuntu) ~/fpc/bin/fpc. I have 2.4.4
> >>> installed with a /etc/fpc.cfg and ~/fpc/bin/fpc will just launch
> >>> 2.4.4. Changing the compiler to ~/fpc/compiler/ppc386 and copying
> >>> fpc.cfg to ~/fpc/compiler/ still fails because the compiler still
> >>> picks up /etc/fpc.cfg. AFAIK the fpc.cfg in the compiler
> >> dir will only
> >>> be picked up when there is no .fpc.cfg in the home directory nor a
> >>> fpc.cfg in the current directory nor one in the path specified by
> >>> PPC_CONFIG_PATH nor a /etc/fpc.cfg. Detecting a conflicting fpc.cfg
> >>> and warning the user would be nice.
> >> Agreed.
> >> If I understand the FPC User's Guide correctly, one could use
> >> the -n option to tell fpc to ignore config files, then
> >> specify the one we want with @. The question is, can that be
> >> done with Lazarus


Project Options / Compiler Options / Other


- I suppose not...


Why do you think so?



>Would copying over the > >> newly installed FPC compiler's fpc.cfg to the
installed

> >> lazarus dir work?
> >>
> >
> > I tried the latter but it didn't work.
> What about letting fpcup write another shell script for fpc e.g.
> something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ~/wherever/we/installed/fpc -n @~/wherever/we/installed/fpc.cfg $*
> which should instruct our fpc to ignore any other fpc.cfg, use our own,
> and get any other arguments passed to the script.
>
> Then assign this script as the compiler in Lazarus?!?!


No need.


> > (I suppose this might not work as Lazarus might be looking for other
> files in the compiler path!??!)


Lazarus does neither read nor search the fpc.cfg. It asks the compiler.


Mattias

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