[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1011318: Bug#1011318: Bug#1011318: fp terminal ide does not compile hello world

Abou Al Montacir abou.almontacir at sfr.fr
Sun May 22 13:23:19 BST 2022


We got answer from upstream that explains the issue. The IDE does not use
/etc/fpc.cfg but /etc/fp.cfg which is not created by Debian package.

> > Can anyone using fp IDE check the following issue or at least let us 
> > know if it happens on stock FPC distributed binaries.
> 
> The IDE does not use fpc.cfg, but fp.cfg. The default installer script 
> creates such a file in lib/fpc/$fpcversion/ide/text with appropriate 
> search paths for the default units. The ide can find it there.
> 
> Note: if there is an existing existing fp.cfg in the current directory, 
> that will override the default one. This will probably be the case if 
> the IDE has been started before without it being able to find an 
> existing fp.cfg, because then it will ask to create one in the current 
> directory. So even if the package gets fixed, people may still have 
> problems afterwards if they don't delete local fp.cfg files (the same 
> goes for fp.dsk and fp.ini, but those are less likely to cause issues if 
> they're not based on the default ones).
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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