Re: Installing from trunk

Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.general
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2026, P Padil via fpc-pascal wrote:

> I cloned the main/trunk from gitlab, ran 'make all' and ‘make install' as
> instructed.  The installed libraries are in /usr/local/lib tree with names
> that indicate they are for version 3.3.1, but the fpc compiler installed
> in /usr/local/bin prints 3.2.2.  Under the source compiler directory I see
> ppca64 which prints 3.3.1.  Is there something missing in the
> instructions?  Or do I have to use another git branch?

As far as I know, "make install" does not update the symlinks in
/usr/local/bin, so after a make install the actual compiler binary symlinks 
(ppcx64 or ppci386) still point to the old version. 
You will need to update those manually.

Michael.

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