----- Original Message -----
From: "Enrico Forestieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: LyX on Cygwin
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin
"Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src
(replace x ^ to match your archive name)"
I was reading over Enrico's detailed instructions.
I can't find a lyx 1.4.0.tar.bz2 or tar.gz for download.
Well, x could also mean 0pre5 ;-)
The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute
the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto.
Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ...
Yes, I am sure that in both lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 (or tar.gz)
there is no configure file. Nor is there an autogen.sh file
nor a configure.ac. All of those files are missing, the ones
you would normally expect to see in lyx-devel.
I downloaded the current cvs and didn't find a
configure file. I was wary of mixing Enricos'
Cygwin instructions with the INSTALL notes.
And the cvs option is not offered in the Howto.
The only download folder I found for lyx-1.4.x
was ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/
As regards cvs, it's simply a matter of running ./autogen.sh.
However, if you followed the directions, the script lyxconfig-cygwin
should have informed you that configure was missing and should have
also suggested what to do... run autogen.sh in the same directory
containing configure.ac:
cd lyx-1.4.0pre5
./autogen.sh
Please, tell me if something is not clear.
--
Enrico
cd lyx-1.4.0pre5
./autogen.sh
I don't see how it is possible to run this command as the files
are non-existent. The files can be found in the cvs lyx-devel
directory, but your instructions don't say to use cvs for
obtaining installation files which don't come as bz2 or tar.gz
you say "Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src
>(replace x ^ to match your archive name)"
I've already had the experience of not being able to compile
the cvs files, but I was able to compile Lyx1.4.0pre3, so it is
by no means certain that one can just adapt your configure
switches to the current cvs files.
Lyx1.4.0pre3 came with about 20 files not contained in
Lyx1.4.0pre5. Since you say the files were contained
"The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded ... had one"
it seems that somebody has deleted files from
lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 and tar.gz for that matter and repackaged.
(no configure, configure.ac or autogen.sh plus many others)
The problem I reported remains just as murky,
Stephen
