A few more details after noticing
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg35269.html
Yes, configure in lib get run, but lib/xfonts is an empty directory.
In lib/configure.m4 I find
#------------------------------
echo "checking for TeX fonts"
fontlist="cmex10 cmmi10 cmr10 cmsy10 eufm10 msam10 msbm10"
rm -f xfonts/fonts.dir xfonts/fonts.scale xfonts/tmpfonts
num=0
for font in $fontlist ; do
MSG_CHECKING([for $font])
result=no
for ext in pfb pfa ttf ; do
if filepath=`kpsewhich $font.$ext` ; then
result="yes ($ext)"
rm -f xfonts/$font.$ext
ln -s $filepath xfonts 2>/dev/null
echo "$font.$ext
-unknown-$font-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspe
num=`expr $num + 1`
break
fi
done
MSG_RESULT($result)
done
if test ! $num = 0 ; then
echo $num >xfonts/fonts.scale
cat xfonts/tmpfonts >>xfonts/fonts.scale
cp xfonts/fonts.scale xfonts/fonts.dir
fi
rm -f xfonts/tmpfonts
#------------------------------
but my system does not have such X11 fonts (cmex10.pfb, for example),
only Tex ones: cmex10.tfm and cmex10.mf (in /usr/share/texmf/fonts)
Hope this helps.
Marco Morandini
