[Lazarus] lhelp compilation doesn't seem to pick up primary config path

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 3-8-2012 16:26, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I mentioned this earlier, but on testing just now it happened again.
> 
> Also, Graeme's recent message on lhelp compilation failing with a
> different primary config path triggered me.
> 
> With current fpcup, a bare metal install does not seem to compile lhelp,
> but does compile useride. So far, so good.
> 
> Pressing F1 will induce lhelp compilation which fails on my test
> environment because the default lazarus primary config path is used. See
> messages below.
> Note: my primary config path in this case should be:
> c:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\application
> data\lazarusdevsettings
> 
> On my clean test Win2K, this was not available. On machines with
> existing laz installs, this problem may be masked.
> 
> This is, of course, possibly a problem with fpcup, but perhaps it is
> true that e.g. chmhelppkg doesn't pick up and pass on the
> --primary-config path when compiling lhelp.
> 
> Just throwing it out there in case people see related symptoms; I'll
> have limited email avilability next week so I'll look into it afterwards.

I think it's a bug. Unfortunately no time to go digging how to get the
primary config path, so no patch.
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22565