Hi All,

I am using Linux Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with latest lazarus (as installed via the Ubuntu Software Centre). Today I removed Lazarus and did a clean reinstall. I am now unable to do a clean build. See below:

"LCL" completed
"Package Registration" completed
"IDE Interface" completed
"SynEdit" completed
"CodeTools" completed
/usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28.2/examples/hello.pp(31,1) Error: Can't create object file: units/i386-linux/hello.o
/usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28.2/examples/hello.pp(31,1) Fatal: Can't create object units/i386-linux/hello.o

The problem is with the properties of the files such as hello.pp being owned by 'root' owner. What is the correct way for me to correct this. I would assume that either I need to copy the files or change the owner.

Without doing this I am unable to build lazarus ... making it not very useful.

Best Regards,
PEW
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

2010/8/29 Peter E Williams

This seems to be more of a Linux question than a Lazarus one. You should probably run the build as root or a sudo user, or add youself to a group with write permissions to the necessary folders.

Another option is build it in under your own account, and change all the folders to a directory in your account.

Hang in there someone - who knows more will soon be around to help you.

2010/8/29 Peter E Williams :

You should not build the examples, so disabled that option the configure builds lazarus dialog.

If you want to try an example, copy its sources to somewhere in your home directory and compile from there.

Vincent

On Monday 30 August 2010 00:36:14 Peter E Williams wrote: ...

You don't need to build the examples when you rebuild Lazarus. So, in Configure Build Lazarus, on Advanced Build Options tab set Examples to None.

If I remember right, Lazarus builds itself to your (writable) home directory if there is no write access for the installation directory.

This all is not very intuitive. I even made a big patch for the Configure Build Lazarus dialog which made it more intuitive but it was not applied and is forgotten now I guess.

Now I am almost used to this weird looking dialog like every other lazarus developer is. I am also building Lazarus trunk version in my home dir (with write access) just like other lazarus developers do.

This issue should be addressed later because Lazarus is not built only by the (hard-)core Lazarus development team but also by everybody who installs a package for it.

Juha

30.08.2010 12:15, Juha Manninen (gmail) ?????:

This all is not very intuitive. I even made a big patch for the Configure Build Lazarus dialog which made it more intuitive but it was not applied and is forgotten now I guess.

Is it in Mantis?

Maxim Ganetsky wrote

Is it in Mantis?

Yes. Issue #15336: "Build Profiles for Configure "Build Lazarus" dialog" from December last year.
I used it myself for some time but then got tired keeping it in sync with trunk. Now it is so old it probably doesn't work against current trunk.

The build profiles are handy. I got positive feedback from many people and nobody was really agaist it after the UI was tweaked. Still it was never applied which seems to be fate of many patches.

I can try to "rebase" it to current trunk if you want. I would use git which is said to be good in solving conflicts between code versions.

Juha

30.08.2010 22:33, Juha Manninen (gmail) ?????:

I can try to "rebase" it to current trunk if you want. I would use git which is said to be good in solving conflicts between code versions.

This would be good, it should be in trunk IMO.