[lazarus] What's the difference between these?

[Michael A. Hess]

Ned Boddie wrote:
> 
> cd /opt/fpc/lazarus/lcl
> ppc386 forms
> 
> everything works as expected.

In this case you are in the lcl directory with the forms.pp and all of
the associated units that it needs to compile.
 
> if I do the following:
> 
> cd /opt/fpc/test
> ppc386 /opt/fpc/lazarus/lcl/forms

In this case you are compiling forms but from a different directory. It
can't find the associated units because the source isn't in your current
directory AND (this is big part) you do not have ppc386.cfg setup to
look in the /opt/fpc/lazarus/lcl directory for other units.

Look in the ppc386.cfg file and copy other directory references you find
there to include the /opt/fpc/lazarus/lcl directory. It could be that
you have an older ppc386.cfg that didn't KNOW about the new lazarus/lcl
directory.

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