I've got a handful of systems here where, for various reasons, I run lazbuild rather than the IDE when I want to compile a project for test purposes. In general this works well.

A couple of days ago I ran lazbuild on a system where I do occasionally run the IDE, but found myself in trouble because I had changed the name of the Lazarus directory.

In a situation like this, the options appear to be (i) run the IDE or (ii) edit the XML configuration file by hand. Is there a (iii), e.g. a parameter to lazbuild that tells it to update a configuration file before it uses its contents?

Not yet.

Mattias

I use my Lazarus in my PC, of course, and from HD external too. This HD always have to execute in W: driver, on Windows. So, I made a BAT to not have config files errors:
@echo off

set mypath=%cd%
set mylaz=%mypath%\ide\laz\0.9.29

cd \

if /i %cd% equ W:\ (
cd %mylaz%
start lazarus --pcp=%mypath%\ide\laz\config
) else (
echo "invalid driver"
pause
)

Marcos Douglas

I've got several different versions of Lazarus, each with its preferred version of FPC and each started with --pcp. That works fine, but then I went and changed a directory name from \usr\local\share\lazarus-testing to \usr\local\share\lazarus-newstable and recompiled, whereupon all the binaries were fine but the configuration file needed changing.

Now it happens that on that machine I could have run the IDE to make the changes, but on a couple of others doing that would be inconvenient or impossible.