[DUG] Another challenge in D2007

[Jeremy Coulter]

I have the same issue Rohit withe th ctrl+enter for a file....a file that is 
EVEN in the same bl**dy directory as OTHER files it CAN fine....its doing my 
head in, and YES it is the only existance of the file.....sigh....its not a 
show stopped, just damn annoying at times 

Jeremy
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Rohit Gupta <rohit at cfl.co.nz>
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:26:38 +1200
Subject: [DUG] Another challenge in D2007

Its happened for two libraries, so it is consistent.  I dont see how I can 
prove it to any of you.

My problem was that it has often recompiled the 3rd party libraries, even 
when it had access to the dpk and dcps and the dcus.  The only way I could 
stop it was to rename the pas files so that it would not find them.  I was 
not doing a build and there was nothing wrong with the dates.  I have had 
this problem since D3.

It appears that if the Unit output directory is blank then it is confused 
about where to put the dcus.  Sometimes they go where the pas files are, 
other times they go where the dpk is, yet other times they go where the 
include files for that unit are.  The amazing thing is that when it changes 
the output directory, it actually removes that dcu from the old directory.  

No, I wasnt smoking rope, I made a witness watch it... and it performed.

The solution is to always put something in the unit output directory.  In my 
case I have just put "."  And finally, after over 6 years, the compiler 
works as required.

P.S.  I still have the problem sometimes where it can not find the source 
file with ctrl-enter.... despite the fact that the path is specified in 3 
places.  I suspect that its the same internal problem with directories as 
the unit one above.  Do CodeGear engineers know that windows changes the 
current directory all the time.


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