[fpc-pascal] Fpc 3.2.2 fails to "make install" on RPi4 to local directory

[Bo Berglund]

I have a RaspberryPi4 where I have installed several versions of Lazarus/Fpc
over some time.
The latest versions are (fpc from Tools/Options/Compiler_executable):

Laz 2.0.8  with Fpc 3.0.4 set to use fpc: fpc
Laz 2.0.10 with Fpc 3.2.0 set to use fpc: /home/pi/lib/fpc/3.2.0/ppcarm
Laz 2.0.12 with Fpc 3.2.0 set to use fpc: /home/pi/lib/fpc/3.2.0/ppcarm

Now I wanted to add a new Lazarus version and update my FPC to 3.2.2 as well.

So I have done what I always do, gotten the fpc sources from GitLab into a new
dir ~/dev/fpc/3.2.2, then executed inside that dir using fpc 3.2.0 as seed:

make clean FPC="/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.0/compiler/ppcarm"
make all   FPC="/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.0/compiler/ppcarm"

And then after that succeeded:

make install prefix="$HOME" FPC="$HOME/dev/fpc/3.2.2/compiler/ppcarm"
which throws an error! So I tried without $HOME:

make install prefix="/home/pi" FPC="/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.2/compiler/ppcarm"
which also throws the error, it displays this sequence:

make installbase FPC=/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.2/compiler/ppcarm
ZIPDESTDIR=/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.2
FPCMAKE=/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.2/utils/fpcm/bin/arm-linux/fpcmake
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.2'
/usr/bin/install -m 755 -d /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2
/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/lib/fpc’: Permission
denied
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2858: installbase] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/dev/fpc/3.2.2'
make: *** [Makefile:2875: installall] Error 2

This has *never* happened before to me and I do not understand why it brings up
/usr/bin/ and /usr/local/lib/, the whole point of my use of the argument
prefix="/home/pi"
is to install *locally* below the home dir and not to a global location where
you nhave to be sudo to do anything...

Note:
my $HOME/.fpc.cfg from 2019 contains exclusively paths looking like this:

#ifndef VER2
-FM/home/pi/lib/fpc/../../share/fpc/$fpcversion/unicode/
#endif
# searchpath for units and other system dependent things
-Fu/home/pi/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/$fpctarget
-Fu/home/pi/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/$fpctarget/*
-Fu/home/pi/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/$fpctarget/rtl


Is this a new behaviour for Fpc 3.2.2 different from that of Fpc 3.2.0 where it
did not happen???

If not, what could have happened and in both cases how do I fix it?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden