I installed fpc, fpcsrcs, and lazarus from the snapshots at "http://www.ca.freepascal.org/Lazarus/". Following the directions in "http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/kb/index.php/Installing_Lazarus" I did get the IDE to start up. By the way there is a typo in the installation instructions, it should be "sudo fink install gdk-pixbuf ...." instead of "gtk-pixbuf".
Whe I try to test the "compiler options" ppcppc can't find fpc.cfg, in fact, I can't find a fpc.cfg file anywhere on the computer. The installation instructions indicate it should be "/etc" but it isn't there, nor is any of the "/usr/..." directories that I can determine. I haven't been able to find what is supposed to be in that file to re-create it. Who was supposed to create it? What is supposed to be in fpc.cfg?