Luis Rivera wrote:
> I am happy to inform that the LyX1.3.7pre4 installer works fine on
> Win98, and this far, the only glitch is that bar navigation and screen
> refreshing takes a little longer than usual. I assume it has to do
> with memory restrictions on my experimental subject, and perhaps more
> resource-consuming algorithms in Qt. However, the program runs slowly
> but steadily.
>
> The installer crashes on Win95;
Nothing we can do about that. NSIS don't support win95. Providing a .zip
archive is probably the only realistic solution here.
> however, an unpacked installation
> copied verbatim from a WinXP machine runs happily on this smaller bitty
> box, with the same lags, save for two closely related issues:
>
> 1/ paths at startup are still messed up: I have to declare the sysdir
> at runtime or as an environment variable;
>
> 2/ while running as stated above, exporting as LaTeX mixes something
> like currpath and filename.lyx, so that instead of writing to
> currpath/filename.tex, it writes a new file currpathfilename.tex, at
> currpath directory level.
>
> I have a snapshot of the output at runtime. I hope you find it useful.
It seems that these path problems are simply that there's a '/' missing
from the end of a directory name in win95 that is there in win98 and
above.
On my linux box "lyx -dbg init" gives
<package>
binary_dir /home/angus/bin/
system_support /home/angus/lyx/13x/lib/
build_support /home/angus/lyx/13x/build-qt/lib/
user_support /home/angus/.lyx/
locale_dir
document_dir /home/angus
temp_dir /tmp
home_dir /home/angus
</package>
which is a nasty mix of some directories ending in '/' and others not. What
do you get on your two machines?
--
Angus
