[Lazarus] Screwed up Lazarus installation - how to make clean and start over?

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:18:28 +0100, Bo Berglund via lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>I was trying to nail down the reason for the fppkg errors on start of Lazarus
>2.2.4.
>I had the install running fine except for the Config screen showing up on every
>start of Lazarus with an error message about fppkg...
>
>So I proceeded to install my usual set of packages from OLPM, but when I had
>selected the set I usually install and it was done and asked about rebuilding
>Lazarus it did so and at the end closed itself and did not re-appear!
>Now I cannot start Lazarus at all....
>
>I tried to move the pcp dir away but it did not work either and starting with an
>empty pcp dir does also not work.
>
>So I tried to start over by going to the Lazarus dir and issue make clean, but
>that did also not work:
>
>~/dev/lazarus/2.2.4 $ make clean
>Makefile:234: *** The Makefile doesn't support target can't-executed,, please
>run fpcmake first.  Stop.
>
>What would be the correct procedure now to start over?

Lacking any advice here I started over by removing the old Lazarus directory and
the pcp dir and then build from start with a new set of source files in a fresh
2.2.4 subdir...

All was Ok until again the OLPM packages were installed when the new Lazarus
also failed to start. It seems like at least one of the packages I use from OLPM
will hose Lazarus!

So now I will repeat the effort but this time I will install one package after
another using OLPM and rebuild Lazarus IDE after each. This way I would be able
to pinpoint the one that causes the problem.

Finally:
--------
I have looked at https://wiki.freepascal.org/lazbuild and want to know:

Is there a way to specify the compiler *path* to use for lazbuild?
For example (on one line):

lazbuild --build-ide= --pcp=$HOME/.lazarus_2.2.4
--compiler=$HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.2/ppcarm

According to the wiki it is unclear to me if a path can be used rather than only
the file name (in which case it needs to be on path?)...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden