[Lazarus] Why does Lazarus insist on rebuilding the LCL?

[Henry Vermaak]

On 22 May 2011 13:37, Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every time I update Lazarus, I rebuild it from commandline:
>
> make clean all OPT='-gl'
>
> Then when I open the start Lazarus and want to build the last project
> I was working on, it immediately rebuilds the enitre LCL
> (I thought I had just done so by using make clean all)

I've noticed this, too.  It's quite annoying on my slow laptop.

> On numerous occasions Lazarus tends to repeat this process of
> rebuilding LCL base, even when I did not update and did not change any
> file of the LCL myself.

I was wondering if this happens because compiler settings of your
project are different from the ones you passed on the make command
line.  It would be great to have a setting to stop this behaviour,
perhaps one exists already.

Henry