[Lazarus] project options bug

Andrea Mauri andrea.mauri.75 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 10:15:35 CEST 2008


Bart schreef:
> Sorry for the bit cryptic subject.
> 
> Here's my problem.
> 
> I use 2 Lazarus versions on my WinMe system.
> - Lazarus stable in \Programmas\Lazarus\
> - Lazarus from SVN in \Programmas\SvnLaz\
> - each Lazarus version has it's own seperate fpc binaries and source
> 
> The two versions operated totally independant from each other.
> This all worked like a charm until I did two things
> - I upgraded my stable version to 0.9.26/fpc 2.2.2
> - I recompiled my SVN version with fpc 2.2.2 (until now I used fpc 
> 2.2.0, so in order to use 2.2.2 I had to rebuild the IDE (took me some 
> time to figure that out))
> 
> After recompiling the SVN (mind you, i did not do an svn -update) 
> version it seems to use the config settings of the stable version.
> 
> I open a project in stable, then close the IDE andsave the project.
> Now I start SVN version of Lazarus, and it will open the last project I 
> used in teh stable version.
> Before it really did not do that. I could use SVN and stable version 
> separate,working on different projects.
> Also, the IDE in my SVN version used to be English, now it changed to 
> Dutch (my IDE language setting for the stable one)
> 
> Although this is merely annoying, can I make it funcition like it did 
> before, that is the SVN and stable versions using their own and separate 
> config settings?

Use the --pcp=/path/to/settings/directory (--pcp is short for 
--primary-config-path) command line option. See also 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#The_config_directory

Maybe you can propose a text to add to the release notes.

Vincent




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