On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:54:12AM +0100, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Le 11/03/2019 à 01:47, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > Attached is a user directory. I believe I happened to create it from a > > weird situation. Maybe TeX Live was half-way installed or something like > > that. In any case, LyX won't compile to PDF with pdflatex when this user > > directory is used. That's probably not too strange. But when I > > reconfigure and restart, LyX still doesn't want to compile to PDF with > > pdflatex. Note that LyX will compile to PDF with lualatex. The > > configure.log contains the following: > > > > INFO: checking for the pdflatex program... > > INFO: +checking for "pdflatex"... yes > > > > so I'm not sure why the button is greyed out. > > > > To reproduce: > > > > 1. tar -xzf userdir123.tar.gz && lyx -userdir ./userdir123 > > 2. Note that you cannot compile a simple "hello" document to PDF with > > pdflatex. > > pdf viewer icon greyed out > > > 3. Reconfigure and restart. > > 4. You still cannot compile a simple "hello" document to PDF with pdflatex. > > Similar behaviour, but I can compile Hello after reconfiguration and same > LyX instance (2.3.2). > > If I restart lyx with the userdir, the icon is greyed out again. > > So reconfigure solves the problem if I keep on with LyX.
Thanks for testing. I actually don't even remember if I tried to test without restarting LyX after the reconfigure. That's good to know. Scott
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