[Lazarus] Runtime package (manual compilation only) forced to re-compile by a design time dependant package?

[patspiper]

On 19/04/13 22:31, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>>> Hence, the cycle was to inspect IDE internals, rebuild the
>>>> IDE, and check the messages window. So I had an insight on what was
>>>> supposed to be recompiled and most importantly why, and compared that
>>>> with the actual compilation.
>>>>> You can see in the stdout log, why something was compiled.
>>>> I believe the terminal (from which I launch startlazarus) is incapable
>>>> of buffering so many lines. Are you referring to that terminal log, or
>>>> to piping the output to a log file?
>>> You can pass --debug-log=log.txt as parameter.
>> I have that already as an option in my Lazarus launch script, but it
>> requires a re-launch of the IDE. I use it for extreme cases.
>>> Or use a better terminal. ;)
>> I use the Ubuntu default Gnome Terminal, and have just discovered (now)
>> that its history capacity is configurable! Anyway, what terminal flavour
>> do you recommend?
> Gnome Terminal is ok. The default should be enough to see the last few
> thousand lines.
Mine was set at 512 lines (I have been upgrading Ubuntu versions since 
8.04 or 8.10). I'll make it unlimited.

Stephano