On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Hugh" == Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hugh> My install directory for lyx is /usr/local/lyx-1.0.0pre2. I see
> Hugh> it its subdirectories many of the same files that are found in
> Hugh> subdirectories /usr/local/share/lyx. By looking through the
> Hugh> files in /usr/local/share/lyx, I can see that they include some
> Hugh> specific to 1.0, so they shouldn't be just a leftover from my
> Hugh> former version of lyx.
>
> Hugh> Is this seeming duplication necessary, or is it a leftover from
> Hugh> the compile process that I should have done something about?
>
> Did you install twice? How did you specify your install directory?
Thanks for the reply Jean-Marc! I don't think I installed twice, but it's
been quite a while since I did this. I could have committed many blunders
for my understanding of compiling is limited. I only just discovered the
seeming duplication while studying the program.
At the time I unzipped lyx-1.0.0pre2, I believe I remember having a
choice of the directory for this this. I think I chose this long
directory name in order to distinguish it from the already installed lyx
which was at /usr/local/lyx. Sometimes compiling doesn't go well, and my
previous version was working ok. So I imagined that by specifying a
different directory I could save the old, in case something went wrong
with the new. But the compile went very smoothly.
I no longer have the older lyx and the newer one definitely looks for the
supporting files at /usr/local/share/lyx, for I have tested this.
I have not tried specifying an environmental variable for the supporting
files to see if this would work.
My lyx executable is at /usr/local/bin.
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
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