[Lazarus] Runtime package (manual compilation only) forced to re-compile by a design time dependant package?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:22:42 +0300
patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/04/13 01:03, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:23:26 +0300
> > patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 14/04/13 10:08, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:44:08 +0300
> >>> patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> despite that the FCL needs it:
> >>>> Target: FCL 1.0.1
> >>>> Clean build needed.  <------- ??????
> >>>> File: /home/me/Programs/lazarus/lazarus-svn/packager/registration/fcl.lpk
> >>>> Note: Compiler parameters changed:
> >>>>      Old=""
> >>>>      Now=""
> > Fixed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On the other hand, rebuilding the IDE seems to compile most if not all 
> installed packages:

Yes. If a required package was recompiled then all dependent packages
need to be recompiled too.

 
> - Change the IDE build option (debug to optimized or vice-versa) and 
> save the settings (do not build!)
> 
> - What Needs Building shows mainly: FCL, LCL, LCLBase, CodeTools, Cody, 
> SynEdit, LazUtils, LazControls, lhelpcontrolpkg, IDEIntf, and SynEditDsgn.

Yes, because the above are directly effected by your changes.
The purpose of this dialog is to find the cause of unneeded
compilations. So I have not implemented the indirect tests. It's an
IDE internal.

 
> - Build the IDE.
> 
> - Instead, many packages get compiled, such as: cairocanvas_pkg, 
> ImagesForLazarus, lhelpcontrolpkg,  Printer4Lazarus, ChmHelpPkg, 
> customdrawn, ExternHelp, fpcunitide, lazreport, lazthread, 
> printers4lazide, RunTimeTypeInfoControls, etc...

These packages need recompilation because one of the above
packages was recompiled.

Mattias