[Lazarus] Lazarus SVN build "stucked" to TFPCSourceCache.Update after ran

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:55:55 +0200
Thierry Bothorel <thierry.bothorel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vincent Snijders a écrit :
> > 2010/9/27 Thierry Bothorel <thierry.bothorel at gmail.com>:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> since some days  after successfully building Lazarus from svn, I can't
> >> run it on my Ubuntu 64 bit system : here is the outpout :
> >>
> >> Adding "--pcp=~/.lazarus" as a parameter
> >> Adding "--scp=~/.lazarus" as a parameter
> >>     
> >
> > Why are the primary and the secundary config directory the same. Data
> > is copied from secundary config directory to primary config directory,
> > and I can imagine that you create a endless loop, if they point to the
> > same directory.
> >
> > Vincent
> >   
> OK I understand, but this has not caused me troubles before (~ 6
> months). Why I did that. I have several Lazarus installations. A
> "regular" one installed from :
> deb http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ lazarus-stable
> and some others in my home directory.
> 
> Previously I ran Lazarus installation, build from latest source, without
> any parameter, and others more "stable" with something like :
> startlazarus --pcp=~/.lazarus-stable
> 
> But this cause me lots of troubles when running just :
> startlazarus --pcp=~/.lazarus
> 
> when I believed deleting ~/.lazarus was enough, before I  understand it
> use environment file for *regular" lazarus :
> 
> startlazarus
> TLazarusManager.Run starting
> /home/thierrybo/Sys/local/opt/lazarus_FPC_svn/lazarus ...
> TMainIDE.ParseCmdLineOptions:
>   PrimaryConfigPath="/home/thierrybo/.lazarus"
>   SecondaryConfigPath="/etc/lazarus"
> <-------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> So I added
> 
> --scp=~/.lazarus to avoid this. This used to work until now. I have another build using svn code from 1 month ago, without any problem. My regular installation use also the two identical --pcp and --scp parameters.

Using the scp=pcp should not cause any trouble, because the logic
behind the secondary config directory is this:

If a config file is missing in the pcp, but there is one in the
scp then it is copied from the scp to the pcp.

Mattias