Printer4Lazarus on openSUSE 12.3
lazarus / 32-Linux

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LongTimePascaler · 2013-10-08 13:48

I prototyped a small GUI on Windows Vista (don't ask .. I just did)
and have tried to port it to Linux (openSUSE).  I am using the FPC and
Lazarus installations from the openSUSE repositories.

When I try to build my program on Linux I get the error message:

Write error: Unable to create file
"/usr/lib64/lazarus/components/printers/printer4lazarus.pas"
File: /usr/lib64/lazarus/components/printers/printer4lazarus.pas
package main source file

Now, quite apart from the fact that there is already a
printer4lazarus.pas in /usr/lib64/lazarus/components/printers/ put
there by the installation package, why would Lazarus (or FPC) be
trying to create the file, and how can I stop it from trying?

Thank you for any assistance on this.

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Cyrax · 2013-10-08 13:58

Try to run Lazarus with root privilege.

If you can, try to reinstall FPC and Lazarus under your home
directory.

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Rails · 2013-10-08 17:01

I change the owner of /usr/lib64/lazarus and everything below it to my
regular user, which takes care of the problem. Probably not the safest
way to do it, but it does work.

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LongTimePascaler · 2013-10-09 07:51

QuoteI change the owner of /usr/lib64/lazarus and everything below it
to my regular user, which takes care of the problem. Probably not the
safest way to do it, but it does work.

I'd thought about that, but it really isn't usual to make part of the
system's library directory writable by users.  Having said that it
would be safer to do that than to run everyday applications such as
IDEs as root.  I have noticed that it is not unusual for applications
on Windows to require the user to have system privileges (and so I
don't use those applications) or to write into an application's sub-
directory in the Program Files directory.  I expect that becomes
rather messy on multi-user machines and just isn't considered good
practice on grown-ups' operating systems.

I don't think Lazarus tried to do this on Vista, so that if it is
doing it on Linux (and it seems from Rails's post this is a known
problem) then that's either a coding bug or a design defect.  If
somebody can point me to the Lazarus developers' defect tracking
system I'll raise this there.

Thanks for your help.

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BigChimp · 2013-10-09 08:24

Bugtracker link, top left of your screen.

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LongTimePascaler · 2013-10-09 09:44

Thanks.  The defect report number is 0025173.