[Lazarus] Custom Controls package cannot be found

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:01:09 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 February 2012 19:08, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> >
> > Use 'make distclean' in Lazarus directory;
> 
> 
> Oh God, yet another 'make clean' option!!! How many "clean" options
> does the Lazarus project have??

The clean commands are paired with their counterparts.
make clean all
make bigideclean bigideclean

make distclean is a feature of Makefiles created by fpcmake.

 
> Anyway, I don't think it is going to make much of a difference now -
> seeing that I removed the outdated compiled units already.
> 
> 
> But while you are here... What is the difference between all the "make
> clean..." options, and how many "clean" options do we really have?
> Does Lazarus really need them all? Can't we just have a single 'make
> clean' that really does the job as the name suggests?
> 
> Good news for those using the Git mirror repository. I just found out
> that git has a "really clean" option.
> 
>     git clean -d -x -f
> 
>   -d   Delete untracked directories too
>   -x   Do not use the git ignore file rules
>   -f    Force a "yes to all" to remove all untracked files.

That would delete the directories the user added, wouldn't it?

 
>[...]
> After this I searched the lazarus directory structure. There are NO
> executables, compiled units or other temp files lying around. The
> lazarus directory is now in a pristine state.  I guess I'll use the
> 'git clean' command from now onwards.

Great.

 
> Maybe if the makefile "clean" is not sufficient enough (or technically
> limited in some way), the lazarus developers should implement a 'git
> clean' style tool for the Lazarus project. Or does SVN already have a
> similar command to git-clean?

I don't know. I never needed to clean up everything. If I want the
base state I do an svn export. Sometimes I did a "find . -name '*.ppu'
-delete".


Mattias