After much fiddling around I was able to run Laz 1.90 under fp 3.1.1
looks smooth so far.
people should be told that
fpcUP-deluxe does not remove any old
fpc installs, which it should.
with an old fp, say installed via apt or synaptic, INSTALL of
Laz is bound to totally fail.
use fpcUP-deluxe as the SOLE INSTALLER, don't put any
fp under /usr/ or you'll mess up everything.
Also do not run
make or
sudo make install because it'll mess up everything.