[lazarus] Newbie Q : Can't find classes.pas...

[Mattias Gaertner]

On 01 Jul 2002 18:58:42 +1000
David Creelman <dave at geko.net.au> wrote:

> > Plz do a 
> > 
> > strace ppc386 -vt bogus
> > 
> > After the first page, you will see, what cfg files are tried and which one is loaded.
> > Does it use /etc/fpc.cfg?
> 
> [snip]
> readlink("/proc/7770/exe", "/usr/local/lib/fpc/1.0.6/ppc386", 255) = 31
> signal(SIGSEGV, 0x80f8050)              = 0x8102810
> signal(SIGINT, 0x80f8050)               = 0 (SIG_DFL)
> signal(SIGFPE, 0x80f8050)               = 0x8102810
> stat("ppc386.cfg", 0xbfffed48)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat("/home/davidc/.ppc386.cfg", 0xbfffed48) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
> or directory)
> stat("/etc/ppc386.cfg", 0xbfffed48)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat("fpc.cfg", 0xbfffed48)             = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat("/home/davidc/.fpc.cfg", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=3810, ...})
> = 0
> open("/home/davidc/.fpc.cfg", O_RDONLY) = 3
> [snip]
> 
> I moved .fpc.cfg to blah and went into my lazarus dir and it recompiled.
> That must be it. I didn't do a search for .fpc.cfg ! 
> Thanks for your help with that one Mattias.
> 
> The compiler seems to want to find ppc386.cfg rather than fpc.cfg in my
> setup. Still it all compiles now.

Hmm, this should be added to the FAQ. But I doubt that an strace output is a nice answer.
Is it possible to ask the compiler, which config file it has parsed?

Mattias