[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[Zaher Dirkey]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
> 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.
> The config naming instead suggests that the IDE looks into the *primary*
> (common) config directory first, and into its own directory only next
> (*secondary* config path).
>
>
> What exactly happens when the IDE rebuilds itself?
> Which directory is used for the sources, and for storing the new (compiled)
> IDE? Does it make any sense to rebuild the IDE from sources in a different
> directory, and where is the new IDE stored?
>
>
> Can somebody please clarify the intended procedure for configuring multiple
> parallel Lazarus installations?
>
> DoDi
>
>
I used my own patch for windows
http://www.mail-archive.com/lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/msg07179.html

Regards
-- 
Zaher Dirkey
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