[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> I just encountered a nasty problem:
>
> When I have multiple Lazarus installations (trunk, branches, snapshot...), 
> the common Lazarus configuration is used by default (when no --pcp is 
> specified). Actually I wondered about many error messages on an IDE rebuild, 
> until I noticed that the (default) configuration referred to a different 
> Lazarus directory :-(
>
> This leads me to the question, how a user should configure and start Lazarus 
> at all?
>
> What exactly happens when the IDE is invoked, from a desktop item or command 
> prompt?
> Where does the IDE look for the configuration? Is it sufficient to have a 
> MyLazarus\cfg\ directory, to make the MyLazarus\Lazarus.exe use the 
> configuration in that directory?
>
> IMO the IDE should look for a configuration in the current (EXE) directory 
> first, and only into the common directory when no config can be found there.

Well, definitely not on Unix. 
On unix, the EXE directory should never contain config files.

Michael.