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

[Terry A. Haimann]

Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 5/23/11, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
>>> I'm not sure I understand you on this.
>>> What should I delete?
>>
>> The entries about packages like LCL and IDEIntf.
>> Only IDE and Examples are left.
>> You can get the defaults by:
>> Close IDE, remove ~/.lazarus/miscellaneousoptions.xml.
>
>I will do that.
>
>>> I used to be able to do a "build (clean) lcl" from within the IDE, now
>>> I cannot anymore.
>>
>> The LCL is now a normal package. It will be compiled automatically or
>> you can open the package and click "Compile".
>
>Will try that.
>
>>> I made changes to maskedit.pp (for debugging purposes) and wanted to
>>> rebuild the LCL, but after selecting the buildprofile LCL and pressing
>>> Build, nothing happend.
>>> When I rebuilt the application, it also did not rebuild the LCL.
>
>> When I touch maskedit the IDE recompiles the LCL.
>> Make sure you have the recent svn version and no local modifications.
>
>I did this just after updating (svn update), then make clean all, then
>alter lcl/maskedit.pp
>
>Probably a glitch on my system then...
>
>I'll try again when I have my Linux box running.
>
>Thanks for the help/suggestions.
>
>Bart
>
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