Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Abdel> Hi all, I decided to switch from lyx 1.0.4 to lyx 1.1.4pre2 to Abdel> check to newest feature... I compiled from source the tarball Abdel> and all compiled OK. The problem was when I made a make Abdel> install... it stopped with : [...] Abdel> I edited the Makefile under lib/reLyx/ and replaced the line: Abdel> prefix = ./reLyX with the line: prefix = . The question is to know why the prefix was ./reLyX. How did you configure LyX? Could you show the output of configure? Abdel> By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very Abdel> nice!!! Especially for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of Abdel> maths and graphics without any problem... One side-note though, Abdel> under KDE when the option 'Display content when resizing' is Abdel> on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar Abdel> gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's Abdel> or lyx's fault but I thought I could tell you in case (this is Abdel> kde-1.1.2). That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault). JMarc PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome!
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Abdel> I edited the Makefile under lib/reLyx/ and replaced the line:
> Abdel> prefix = ./reLyX with the line: prefix = .
>
> The question is to know why the prefix was ./reLyX. How did you
> configure LyX? Could you show the output of configure?
I made :
setenv CXXFLAGS = '-O6 -march=pentiumpro'
./configure
I'm sorry I didn't keep a trace of the output of configure the first time but
when I run it again on the same install directory, the lines related to reLyx
are : checking for reLyX LaTeX-to-LyX translator... (reLyX)
+checking for "reLyX"... yes
which is normal... and later:
configuring in lib/reLyX
running /bin/sh ./configure --cache-file=../.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache ../.././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX
I did a fresh install on another install directory and then the output is:
configuring in lib/reLyX
running /bin/sh ./configure --cache-file=../.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache ../.././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... no
When I run it again on the same new directory, the output become
configuring in lib/reLyX
running /bin/sh ./configure --cache-file=../.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache ../.././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... ./reLyX
So I guess that the problem arises when you configure for the second time. As
xforms wasn't installed on my system, I runned configure twice when I installed
Lyx. Would you like the complete output or the config.cache file?
>
> That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault).
>
> JMarc
>
> PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home
> page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome!
Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African School for Meteorology
and Civil Aviation. Our school have students from a lot of West African
countries and I'm trying to influence them so that they use Lyx instead of
word. I'm doing the same with my African colleagues by giving them some
courses about Unix and Lyx. There's not a lot of Lyx users around here for now,
but the number is increasing, I guess (hope) that the students will
start to advocate the use of linux and lyx when they go back to their countries.
Here, the choice is clear: it is almost impossible to use our very old
computers with win95 and word, whereas Linux and Lyx perform rather well.
We're just beginning our internet adventure and we have a very low bandwidth
but if you'd like us to become a mirror of the Lyx homepage in Africa, we can
manage to do so...
Abdel.
--
Abdelrazak YOUNES
Instructeur EAMAC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 06:26:49PM +0100, Abdelrazak YOUNEs wrote: > > > > PS: does .ne stand for Niger? [That's what I guessed from EAMAC home > > page] We did not have that many users from Africa until now. Welcome! > > Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African School for > Meteorology and Civil Aviation. Our school have students from a lot of > West African countries and I'm trying to influence them so that they use > Lyx instead of word. Great! (Welcome) Someone has to find the paragraph in the web site or docs that talks about a development effort on five continents and change it to six. (Actually counter.li.org says there are a couple linux hosts in antarctica---anyone know if they use lyx?) -Amir
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Abdel> checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why reLyX is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having '.' in the PATH is a bad idea, I am not sure how I could avoid that... I'll have to thing about it. Abdel> Yes indeed, we're based in Niamey, EAMAC is the African Abdel> School for Meteorology and Civil Aviation. Our school have Abdel> students from a lot of West African countries and I'm Abdel> trying to influence them so that they use Lyx instead of Abdel> word. I'm doing the same with my African colleagues by Abdel> giving them some courses about Unix and Lyx. There's not a Abdel> lot of Lyx users around here for now, but the number is Abdel> increasing, I guess (hope) that the students will start to Abdel> advocate the use of linux and lyx when they go back to Abdel> their countries. Here, the choice is clear: it is almost Abdel> impossible to use our very old computers with win95 and Abdel> word, whereas Linux and Lyx perform rather well. I really hope that linux (and to a lesser extent LyX) will help computing in Africa. It has been predicted for some time, but I find that it takes a lot of time to take off... It's a pity. Abdel> We're just beginning our internet adventure and we have a very Abdel> low bandwidth but if you'd like us to become a mirror of Abdel> the Lyx homepage in Africa, we can manage to do so... If you think that it could be useful to African users, you are very welcome to do so. There is some information about that at http://www.devel.lyx.org/mirror.php3 JMarc
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
²On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Abdel> checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX > > Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why reLyX > is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having '.' in yes... > the PATH is a bad idea, I am not sure how I could avoid that... I'll > have to thing about it. I agree with you but that's the default for slackware and I guess that the newbie won't even know how to remove '.' from his PATH, anyway, without it, the problem is resolved... > I really hope that linux (and to a lesser extent LyX) will help > computing in Africa. It has been predicted for some time, but I find > that it takes a lot of time to take off... It's a pity. Let's not loose faith. Just by watching how my students are getting motivated, I'm convinced that it will take off !! But as I said in a previous mail, this is less than a year since we're connected to the internet so it will obviously take some time. Anyway, most of the ISP in Africa are based on Linux and we already have some civil aviation telecommunication solutions based on Linux systems... As in Asia, most of the software are illegal copies in Africa and Microsoft is already talking about this to the different governments. So Linux is definitly a solution to this problem, and on the road it will develops the skills of its users Oups, sorry about talking that much... > If you think that it could be useful to African users, you are very > welcome to do so. There is some information about that at > http://www.devel.lyx.org/mirror.php3 Well at least this will catch their interests, so I'll do that... Regards, Abdel. PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site??? > > JMarc -- Abdelrazak YOUNES Instructeur EAMAC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak YOUNEs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Abdel> checking for prefix by checking for reLyX... (cached) ./reLyX >> Do you have '.' in your PATH? This is probably the reason why >> reLyX is found in the build directory. Besides the fact that having >> '.' in Abdel> yes... This should not be a problem in theory, I think it is a bug in autoconf... Abdel> Let's not loose faith. Just by watching how my students are Abdel> getting motivated, I'm convinced that it will take off !! I hope you'll be proven right! You said earlier that you had machines not suited for windows 9x/NT. What kind of machines are these? Is LyX performance adequate on these machines? It is important that we get feedback from people using slow machines, since most of the developpers probably do not see some problems. In particular, there are plans to remove the so-called 'fast selection' support, because it complicates the code a lot. Do you use it? Also, is support for black-and-white screens important to you? JMarc Abdel> PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site??? Non, malheureusement. Il y a un site sur la traduction en francais de la documentation (un peu au point mort en ce moment...), mais c'est tout.
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
On 25-Jan-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Abdel> By the way, I checked already the html export feature... very > Abdel> nice!!! Especially for maths!! I opened my 200p thesis full of > Abdel> maths and graphics without any problem... One side-note though, > Abdel> under KDE when the option 'Display content when resizing' is > Abdel> on, the lyx window doesn't resize well, tits*, the scroll bar > Abdel> gets scrambled and acts weirdly. I don't know if this is kwm's > Abdel> or lyx's fault but I thought I could tell you in case (this is > Abdel> kde-1.1.2). > > That is probably LyX fault (or rather xforms fault). > I don't really know! A lot of programs have problem with the KDE mode of sending update requests when moving or resizing a window in the full grafic mode. We here had problems with tcl-tk applications regulary so that we have to set that option of and don't display the content of the window. Also Motif application are VERY slow on updating there content when resizing. IMO KDE is sending too many update requests and a lot can not be handled correctly. Greets Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N Tel:+39-0471-450260 I-39100 Bozen Fax:+39-0471-450296 ITALY Web:http://www.sad.it/~jug If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it. -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:10:18AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Abdel> PS: Y'a t'il une version française du site??? > > Non, malheureusement. Il y a un site sur la traduction en francais de > la documentation (un peu au point mort en ce moment...), mais c'est > tout. Well, that's pretty lame, even if you're trying to hide it by writing it in french. Could you perhaps convince one of the french translators to write up a quick web page in french? They don't have to write too much, since the docs cover how to actually use LyX and they're (in the process of being) translated already. It would just have to describe the simple aspects of setting up french LyX. (Which means you could probably copy the mexican mirror's spanish page and translate it to french.) -Amir
Re: lyx-1.1.4pre2 installation bug report (I think)
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> Well, that's pretty lame, even if you're trying to hide it by Amir> writing it in french. Could you perhaps convince one of the Amir> french translators to write up a quick web page in french? The problem right now is rather to convince the french translators to write french translations ;) As many of us, they do not have much free time. JMarc
