On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
>
> > The patch has rotten a bit, but the conflicts were trivial. It was
> > however a pain in the ass to get AikSaurus to work
>
> can you detail your problems ? I added the autotools stuff to AikSaurus,
> so probably screwed up some of it.
The problem was that I had an older version of BZip2 installed. It seemed
that version was too old for AikSaurus, but I need it for something else.
Therefore, I installed the newest version of BZip2 side-by-side with the
older one. However, the configure script of AikSaurus could not handle
this kind of setup, nomatter what options I tried to give it. It always
found the old version, and ignored the newer one.
In the end, I had to uninstall the old BZip2, configure and compile
AikSaurus, and then reinstall the old BZip2.
So, I think the problem could be fixed by adding a switch to the configure
script where you explicitly tell it where the BZip header files and
library files are placed.
> > or some other configure-wizard, is it a problem to extend the configure
> > stuff to update such a file with information about detected programs and
> > libraries that LyX can use?
>
> hmm, won't this differ from the normal meaning of this file ? Normally I can
> add a latex package and run "Re-configure". But you can't do this with dependencies
> such as pspell, AikSaurus etc. AFAICS
I don't want to change what re-configure does for LaTeX. I just want the
code that builds LaTeXConfig.lyx to consider programs so that the user has
a chance to see what other programs and libraries might be nice
to have. Obviously, for libraries, the user would have to rebuild LyX
to use them, but for things like ChkTeX and imagemagick, which are
external programs that are not linked into LyX, it does make sense to
reconfigure and detect programs that LyX can exploit. Afterwards, the
user would then be able to typographically check his program, or include
a GIF picture.
Also, it is very useful to have one place to list all the programs and
libraries that LyX can use. It's quite a few these days.
Greets,
Asger
