[Lazarus] Startlazarus starting "wrong" Lazarus

2013-01-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
I stumbled into a situation which might be rather confusing for an inexperienced user: Lazarus 1.04, Linux environment. If you install from rpm a new version, but your local old version has a more recent date (because you recompiled it recently to install some packages), startlazarus will sho

Re: [Lazarus] Startlazarus starting "wrong" Lazarus

2013-01-12 Thread Juha Manninen
If both versions are in the system path then anything can happen. The one you install from RPM goes maybe to /usr/bin/ and is certainly in the path. I recommend you put any other version of Lazarus into its own directory which is not in the system path, for example into "~/Lazarus_test". Then start

Re: [Lazarus] Startlazarus starting "wrong" Lazarus

2013-01-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
On 01/12/2013 12:52 PM, Juha Manninen wrote: If both versions are in the system path then anything can happen. The one you install from RPM goes maybe to /usr/bin/ and is certainly in the path. I recommend you put any other version of Lazarus into its own directory which is not in the system path

Re: [Lazarus] Got "Pointer", expected "Open Array Of Char"

2013-01-12 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 12/1/13 6:10, Dave Coventry wrote: dst and src are passed to the function that calls Copybytes(); function copy_compressed_bytes(var dst: array of Char; var dloc, sloc: integer; src: array of Char; len: integer): integer; begin Copybytes(@dst[dloc],@src[sloc],16); return 0; end; I

Re: [Lazarus] Startlazarus starting "wrong" Lazarus

2013-01-12 Thread Juha Manninen
Ok, I see. It sounds like a bug. I personally don't have experience of that because I mostly use development versions and start them from a console. Juha -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.or