Sorry for the bit cryptic subject.

Here's my problem.

I use 2 Lazarus versions on my WinMe system.
- Lazarus stable in \Programmas\Lazarus\
- Lazarus from SVN in \Programmas\SvnLaz\
- each Lazarus version has it's own seperate fpc binaries and source

The two versions operated totally independant from each other. This all worked like a charm until I did two things
- I upgraded my stable version to 0.9.26/fpc 2.2.2
- I recompiled my SVN version with fpc 2.2.2 (until now I used fpc 2.2.0, so in order to use 2.2.2 I had to rebuild the IDE (took me some time to figure that out))

After recompiling the SVN (mind you, i did not do an svn -update) version it seems to use the config settings of the stable version.

I open a project in stable, then close the IDE andsave the project. Now I start SVN version of Lazarus, and it will open the last project I used in teh stable version.
Before it really did not do that. I could use SVN and stable version separate,working on different projects.
Also, the IDE in my SVN version used to be English, now it changed to Dutch (my IDE language setting for the stable one)

Although this is merely annoying, can I make it funcition like it did before, that is the SVN and stable versions using their own and separate config settings?

Bart
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Use the --pcp=/path/to/settings/directory (--pcp is short for --primary-config-path) command line option. See also http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#The_config_directory

Maybe you can propose a text to add to the release notes.

Vincent

Hello Vincent,

Monday, October 20, 2008, 10:25:01 PM, you wrote:

VS> Use the --pcp=/path/to/settings/directory (--pcp is short for VS> --primary-config-path) command line option. See also VS> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#The_config_directory

VS> Maybe you can propose a text to add to the release notes.

Something seems to happend with the wiki search engine, a few days ago I spend two hours searching the wiki for this parameter (I know that it exists but forget the name) and I put a bunch of keywords in the search box like "config directory" and many others using the alias "folder" for directory. Also browsed the installation process without any luck and finally found it reading the source code.

Almost all my searchs end in the "Lazarus FAQ" but for sure none took me to the "Multiple Lazarus" page. Even searching with google for "config directory" does not took me directly :(

Is there anything we (the users) can do to get better wiki search results ?

tags

The wiki also doesn't search for smaller than 3 character words.

But it seems that we haven't been using tags, but I am sure the wiki-engine we use support it.

Use the --pcp=/path/to/settings/directory (--pcp is short for --primary-config-path) command line option. See also http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#The_config_directory

I'll give that a try.
I assume the default directory under win9x used to be the directory where Lazarus.exe resided in? (what files am I looking for in that directory? They should still be there...)

It is however not clear to me why the SVM version started using the other config directory, after rebuilding the IDE with 2.2.2, did it change the behaviour of GetConfigDir?

Maybe you can propose a text to add to the release notes.

The release notes of Lazarus or fpc 2.2.2? I'm not sure what caused this "problem" .
Should I then post the proposed text here, or on the bugtracker?

Vincent

Thanks, for the quick answer.
(I looked at the wiki, but obviously used the wrong keywords)

Bart
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