[Lazarus] Debugging Lazarus IDE (Package access violation)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:04:24 +0300
Max Vlasov <max.vlasov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Paul Ishenin <ip at kmiac.ru> wrote:
> 
> > 23.11.2010 13:54, Max Vlasov пишет:
> >
> >  I suppose I should report an issue, but just
> >> wondering, is it hard (if it full reproducible) to run another instance
> >> of Lazarus and debug it, so the report could contain more information
> >> saving the developers' time?
> >>
> >
> > Nothing difficult. Open lazarus.lpi in lazarus and press Run. Better to
> > have RTL compiled with debug info.
> >
> >
> Thanks, Paul
> 
> Finally it worked although along the way I managed to solve some problems
> and set up two instances of Lazarus working at the same comp.
> 
> By the way, the bug listed as solved (
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17437) probably still exist. Actually
> the makefiles in the folder \components\lazcontrols are the only one that
> occasionally contains extra relative up and after that Lazarus down
> (../../../Lazarus/lcl instead of ../../lcl),

That probably means you are mixing packages from two Lazarus
source directories.
This is allowed, although in case of lazcontrols this is almost always
a bad idea. I'm not sure where to put a warning for this case.


> so there's no problem for those
> who have the root compilation folder named accordingly and the one who has
> it different (mine was LazComp and nearby older lazarus in Lazarus folder,
> so I got wrong unit version error since lcl in that folder was
> older-compiled). Should I just leave a note there or issue a new bug?


Mattias