Re: [school-discuss] Re: LyX

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@kzoo.edu>]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've just been on the lyx site and found a 
mandrake rpm but not a source rpm.  Is that on some other site, such as 
rpmfind?  Right now I'm downloading from the lyx site version 1.3.0 
which according to lyx should be THE stable version of the 1.3 series.
If that doesn't work, I'll try the mandrake rpm but I've not had good 
luck trying to install mandrake rpm's in the binary form.  If you have a 
 reference for the source of the mandake 9.2 source rpm, please post it.

Here is the result of executing ./configure on the freshly downloaded
lyx 1.3.0 source directory:
everything went fine until I got the failure message in the attached 
file.  If anyone has the patience to read through all those lines of 
error messages, I'd appreciate some insight.  This is the same problem 
I've had with later versions of LyX - apparently the configuration 
script cannot find files that seem to be in the system.  Is this a PATH 
problem?

Leon Brooks wrote:
. . .
> You might want to try pulling the .src.rpm for Mandrake 9.2 and 
> rebuilding that on your RH9 box.
>
> Cheers; Leon
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
chmod: failed to get attributes of `reLyX': No such file or directory
chmod: failed to get attributes of `noweb2lyx': No such file or directory
config.status: creating reLyX
chmod: failed to get attributes of `noweb2lyx': No such file or directory
config.status: creating noweb2lyx

Configuration
  Host type:                      i686-pc-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:            xforms-image-loader
  C   Compiler:                   gcc
  C   Compiler flags:             -g -O2
  C++ Compiler:                   g++ (3.2.2)
  C++ Compiler flags:             -O -fno-exceptions
  Linker flags:                   
  Frontend:                       xforms
    libXpm version:               4.11
    libforms version:             
  LyX binary dir:                 /usr/local/bin
  LyX files dir:                  /usr/local/share/lyx

**** The following problems have been detected by configure.
**** Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
**** (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)

** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library
   is correctly installed on your system.

** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
   is correctly installed on your system.

*** root 21:22:06 /p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.0 
 > locate libforms
/usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1.0
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/gl/libformsGL.so.1
*** root 21:24:13 /p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.0 
 > locate libxforms
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/NT/libxforms.dsp
*** root 21:24:24 /p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.0 
 > locate forms.h
. . .
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/fdesign/fd/ui_theforms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/fdesign/viewforms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/lib/include/forms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/lib/forms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/lib/X11/X11/forms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/lib/exports/include/X11/forms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/exports/include/X11/forms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/xforms-1.0/X11/X11/forms.h
/p5/RedHat/RPMS/lyx-1.3.4/forms.h
/p5/office52/oo_1.0.2_src/xmloff/source/forms/officeforms.hxx
. . .