[Lazarus] anchoring got invisible controls

[Andrea Mauri]

On Monday 30 August 2010 00:36:14 Peter E Williams wrote:
...
> /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28.2/examples/hello.pp(31,1) Fatal: Can't create
> object units/i386-linux/hello.o
> 
> The problem is with the properties of the files such as hello.pp being
> owned by 'root' owner. What is the correct way for me to correct this. I
> would assume that either I need to copy the files or change the owner.
> 
> Without doing this I am unable to build lazarus ... making it not very
> useful.

You don't need to build the examples when you rebuild Lazarus. So, in Configure 
Build Lazarus, on Advanced Build Options tab set Examples to None.

If I remember right, Lazarus builds itself to your (writable) home directory 
if there is no write access for the installation directory.

This all is not very intuitive. I even made a big patch for the Configure Build 
Lazarus dialog which made it more intuitive but it was not applied and is 
forgotten now I guess.

Now I am almost used to this weird looking dialog like every other lazarus 
developer is. I am also building Lazarus trunk version in my home dir (with 
write access) just like other lazarus developers do.

This issue should be addressed later because Lazarus is not built only by the 
(hard-)core Lazarus development team but also by everybody who installs a 
package for it.

Juha