On Monday 12 September 2005 22:42, Luis Rivera wrote: > Hello, > > The exact problem is as follows: tried to compile tex2lyx using Angus's > shell script on my win98 system. Compilation failed because the script > couldn't find python, apparently required to byte-compile lyx2lyx. > Python is not part of the mingw/msys/DTKmsys combo, so it may have > trouble calling an external program. > > Angus, do you compile using this combo plus python4windows 2.4.1 on > your winXP system? How so?
I do. I added C:/Python24 to my path, so: $ cat J:/MinSYS/home/Angus/.profile PATH=/j/GnuWin32/bin:/j/emacs-21.3/bin:/c/Python24:/c/Program\ Files/ZIP:/c/Program\ Files/Ghostgum/gsview/:/c/Program\ Files/Ghostscript\ 8.33/gs8.33/bin:/c/Program\ Files/ImageMagick-6.2.1-Q16:$HOME/bin:$PATH alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i' alias ls='ls --color' However, that's not really the point. You should still be able to "make install" lyx even if you don't have python installed. José, Jean-Marc, I suspect that the problem lies with the dist_lyx2lyx_PYTHON Makefile.am target. It should check for python's presence, no? Luis, can you confirm that the thing fails when you "make install" and not when you "configure" or "make" ? Angus
