[Lazarus] Trying to work around "Illegal character in format string"

[Alan Corey]

OK, I downloaded 1.6 overnight and installed it, haven't seen the
illegal character error since.

Nice to add: If the OS is one of the BSDs, Tools -> Options ->
Environment -> 'Make' executable should default to gmake on install.
Or just look for gmake in the path and default to it if found.
OpenBSD's make gives an error on -w as an argument which rebuilding
the IDE by the buttons at least uses.

There's no 'make uninstall' so I renamed my old lazarus directory and
installed beside it.  Should I have maybe removed ~/.lazarus?

I still can't get the chmhelp package to install, even after
upgrading, rebuilding the IDE, restarting.  It's mentioned in
~/.lazarus/idemake.cfg and ~/.lazarus/staticpackages.inc but it still
shows with a green +.

Should I be able to get to the point where I can do ctrl-F1 on a
keyword in the editor to bring up help on it?  F1 in a field in Object
Inspector is working to bring up htmlhelp.

Whaddya mean read the documentation?  It doesn't even have a manpage. :)

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