Il 02/11/2019 11:26, Karl-Michael Schindler via lazarus ha scritto:
I am working on the package description for lazarus for MacPorts and are struggling with the following: $PREFIX/share/lazarus contains the source code as well as the compiled units. In case lazarus is recompiled the directory $PREFIX/share/lazarus needs to be writable by all users. At least this is as far as I got. Is there a way to keep the source files readonly and place the compiled files somewhere separate? How has this been dealt with for linux?
As Sven pointed, in Linux when the $PREFIX/lazarus directory is not writable, the compiled files and the executable are put into the user's home directory under ~/.lazarus (which is also the default path for user configuration files). Executable in ~/.lazarus/bin, compiled units in ~/.lazarus/lib and ~/.lazarus/units. That's the default behaviour, but you may also select a different target directory for your recompiled copy from Tools->Configure "Build Lazarus"->Target directory.
Moreover, startlazarus will check if the lazarus copy in $PREFIX/lazarus is newer than your local recompiled lazarus, which happens if you update to a new version. In that case it will ask you which one you want to start.
If you make $PREFIX/lazarus writable, you will always have only one copy of Lazarus. If you don't, you will have two copies: the original one, and your recompiled one.
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