Hi,

After installing Lazarus and recompiling it with the packages I need, it restarts and I see the packages I want.

Then I stop lazarus and start it again through Launchpad.

In this case, I get the originally installed Lazarus. No sign of the new packages. I look in the packages list, and it says e.g. 'pas2js selected for install, but not installed'
(or something similar).

If I start Lazarus through the ~/.lazarus/bin/lazarus.app icon, then it works. (I made a link on the desktop, so I can start it).

But, here is the question:

How can I make sure the icon in Launchpad starts the correct (i.e. newly compiled) Lazarus ?

Should not the system installed version detect the 'local' version and start that ?

Michael.

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

Should not the system installed version detect the 'local' version and start that ? From my experience with MacOS, it only looks inside the *.app directory for what to

use. Local (installed in user home folder) doesn't affect it in any way. This is not only a Lazarus issue. I had the same with jEdit (system install & user install). Eventually I removed the system installed version, so there is only every one instance of the app.

Regards,
Graeme

[...] Should not the system installed version detect the 'local' version and start that ?

Sounds like:
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37753

Mattias

I think the correct solution is indeed to let the installed "Lazarus.app" start the startlazarus binary. That will then take care of the rest.

Any idea how I can accomplish this myself ?
I tried setting the symbolic link 'lazarus' in /Application/Lazarus.app/Contents/MacOS to ../../../startlazarus, but that does not seem to be enough.

I get strange effects, that's the least I can say :-)

Michael.

Hi

Has anyone checked whether using /opt instead of /usr/local resolves the issue? At least this is the sort of resolution of the package managers fink and macports.

Michael.