[fpc-pascal] A patched unit overriding the default - like Delphi supports

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Op 2010-06-17 10:39, Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
> 
> IIRC delphi has a equivalent of -Ur ({$IMPLICITBUILD OFF}). Were the
> _original_ components compiled with that?

It's been over 7 years, so the details are a bit fuzzy.  If I remember
correctly, Delphi used to like dumping all installed components (and thus
*.dcu and *.bpl files) in a single directory (I think it was called
Delphi7\Projects\Bpl\).

If your project then included a new *.pas files with earlier unit search
path pointing to that new *.pas, it would recompile it and its *.dcu will
be generated inside your project's output path, thus used instead of the
original one in the Delphi7\Projects\Bpl path.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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