[Lazarus] FPC config file inheritance issue

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 17:18:25 +0200
Péter Gábor <ptrg at freemail.hu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Today I tried to compile (on linux) an old project written on windows.
> This project has some FPC settings stored in its local folder. The
> configuration file is named "fpc.cfg" (without dot on the beginning).
> 
> FPC reported an error: Can't find unit system
> Any other projects can be compiled without error.
> 
> After some headache I found that the project's local "fpc.cfg" (without
> dot on the beginning) is parsed by FPC but the global ".fpc.cfg (with
> dot on the beginning) is ignored or just seems to be so.
> 
> So I renamed the project's local configuration file from "fpc.cfg" to
> ".fpc.cfg" and now everything goes right...
> 
> I think that the expected behaviour of configuration parser is to parse
> local and the global configuration files regardless of its naming
> convention.

fpc only reads the first config file it finds. If you want to read
more pass them via parameter "@filename".

Mattias