Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > Does this runs configure in backgrounds? You don't want to mess up > > with root home directory (creating ~/.lyx). > > It does run configure.
Bad news. But again even if it does not I don't think we should never run lyx unless its properly installed, i.e. not it in make check phase. > In theory, we should take responsibility for testing on all but in > practice we do not. I don't think this is possible. There are so many different ways how things are handled that you have to let distro maintainers do their work. > I agree that the tests should be to make sure everything is fine on > the target machine. But if a maintainer really wants to know whether No, you misunderstood me. I claim we shouldn't run this whole extensive set of test on the target machine by make check. We can create some additional test target in makefile and announce it. > I guess the best thing to do is what you say -- explicitly state all > of the dependencies. Have you ever seen the full list of LaTeX classes we "support"? :) Pavel
