Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Dienstag, 19. September 2006 13:59 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
"Rainer" == Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rainer> Is there a pre-release tarball which I could compile? Would
Rainer> svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X
Rainer> lyx-1.4.x
Rainer> give me the right code?
Yes.
Rainer> Do I need to run autoconf etc. before I can run configure,
Rainer> when I take it out of SVN?
Run the script ./autogen.sh to run autoconf and automake.
The script is picky about the version of autoconf and automake. I am not
surprised that this is not working on my system with an older installation,
but I am surprised that it is not working on an Debian etch system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/SW.nobackup/BRANCH_1_4_X$ ./autogen.sh
Using automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
Using autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a
This autoconf version is not supported by LyX.
LyX only supports autoconf 2.5[2-9].
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/SW.nobackup/BRANCH_1_4_X$
Has anybody a prerelease tarball with a configure script?
I run into this now and then - I upgrade my debian testing/unstable
often. But installing an old autoconf is easy - and re-upgrading it
is also easy if you need the new autoconf for other projects.
I use:
apt-get install autoconf=2.59a-3
(Works because I have stable, testing & unstable in my
/etc/apt/sources.list)
You get a warning about downgrading - but that's ok.
After configuring lyx, just do a
apt-get install autoconf
to go up to the latest version again. You rarely need autoconf, even if you
track lyx development you usually just do a "make" after patching.
If your sources.list isn't set up for this, just download the .deb file
from debian and install with dpkg -i filename.deb instead. Re-upgrading
should still be as simple as "apt-get install autoconf"
Fixing this requires someone that both understands autoconf, and is
interested in doing it. There are currently so many more interesting pieces
I guess.
Helge Hafting
