On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:11:34PM +0100, José Matos wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2014 11:09:47 Sven Hoexter wrote:
Hey, > > You rock! Thanks, it was indeed a missing build-depedency on bc. > > That requirement is there for all the 2.1.x releases. Until I found that it > was bc that missing it was a huge headache. :-) I can imagine, I guess I had a rather strange look on my face once I encountered the issue itself and once I read the solution. > we have a comment in the .spec file that says: > > # weird but necessary to compare the supported qt version > # see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/137498 Indeed worth reading. Thanks for the pointer. It's interesting especially in the light of a recent discussion in Debian which of the "traditional" Unix tools should no longer have priority standard and thus be installed as a default. bc was also one of the tools discussed. On the other hand there is Linus citing LyX as an example for the Unix way. Cheers, Sven