[Lazarus] Where does Lazarus store/look for global settings/options?

[Luca Olivetti]

En/na Mattias Gärtner ha escrit:
> Zitat von Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es>:
> 
>> En/na Mattias Gärtner ha escrit:
>>
>>> The installation packages install Lazarus always in the same location.
>> There was
>>> no need yet to auto update paths.
>>> Can you explain what the problem is when upgrading?
>> To have the extra packages/components installed in the previous version
>> available in the new one.
> 
> Just start the IDE, compile and restart it. This will install the last package
> set.

I normally use lazbuild, but as a test I followed your advice:

1) I copied my c:\lazarus-0.9.26 directory to to a new directory c:\laztest
2) "make clean bigide" in c:\laztest
3) start the new lazarus, change environment options to point to 
c:\laztest (otherwise the ide "build lazarus" would build the old one)
4) Add a bogus property to TChart in the new directory (tchart is 
shipped with lazarus but it isn't installed by default)
5) Tools->Configure Build Lazarus->Build Ide With Packages->Build
6) Put a TChart on a form to check in the object inspector if the new 
bogus property is there
7) The new property isn't there, unsurprisingly since lazarus compiled 
the component from the old directory

QED

Here's a a diff between idemake.cfg from the old and the newly built 
ide. As you can see lazarus adjusted the paths only for 
synedit,ideintf,lcl,codetools and packager, but it used the same as 
before for all other components.

--- lazarus.save/idemake.cfg	2008-11-17 15:38:40.544913600 +0100
+++ lazarus/idemake.cfg	2008-12-03 08:58:50.537998400 +0100
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
--FEC:\lazarus-0.9.26
+-FEc:\laztest
  -olazarus.new.exe
  -FlC:\lazextra\libnodave-0.8.4.4\DelphiComponent\
  -FuC:\lazextra\zeosdbo\trunk\packages\lazarus\build\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\rtticontrols\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\printers\design\lib\i386-win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\cgi\ide\lib\i386-win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\memds\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\fpcunit\ide\lib\i386-win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\projecttemplates\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\sqldb\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\tdbf\lib\i386-win32\win32\
  -FuC:\lazextra\rx\lib\i386-win32\
  -FuC:\lazextra\RackCtls\lib\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\tdbf\lib\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\sqldb\lib\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\projecttemplates\lib\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\fpcunit\ide\lib\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\memds\lib\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\cgi\ide\lib\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\printers\design\lib\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\rtticontrols\lib\i386-win32\win32\
  -FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\daemon\lib\i386-win32\win32\
  -FuC:\lazcustom\animacion\lib\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\synedit\units\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\ideintf\units\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazextra\libnodave-0.8.4.4\DelphiComponent\lib\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\tachart\lib\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\turbopower_ipro\units\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\sdf\lib\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\cgi\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-Fuc:\laztest\components\synedit\units\i386-win32\
+-Fuc:\laztest\ideintf\units\i386-win32\
  -FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\printers\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\cgi\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\sdf\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\turbopower_ipro\units\i386-win32\
+-FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\tachart\lib\i386-win32\win32\
+-FuC:\lazextra\libnodave-0.8.4.4\DelphiComponent\lib\
  -FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\rx\lib\
  -FuC:\lazcustom\myspin\lib\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\lcl\units\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\lcl\units\i386-win32\win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\components\codetools\units\i386-win32\
--FuC:\lazarus-0.9.26\packager\units\i386-win32\
+-Fuc:\laztest\lcl\units\i386-win32\
+-Fuc:\laztest\lcl\units\i386-win32\win32\
+-Fuc:\laztest\components\codetools\units\i386-win32\
+-Fuc:\laztest\packager\units\i386-win32\
  -Fu.
  -dLCL
  -dLCLwin32



Bye
-- 
Luca Olivetti
Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/
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