Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Larry Hall writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Larry Hall writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Enrico Forestieri on 10/8/2006 3:54 PM: As I explained in an another mail, in this case the culprit is qt3 and not boost. I suspected boost because of the following comment in boost/libs/filesystem/src/path_posix_windows.cpp: //

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Eric Blake
It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax //. This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, so any path of the form //xxx/yyy is normalized to /xxx/yyy. I understand that

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +, Eric Blake wrote: It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax //. This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, so any path of the form

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-05 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, David Arnstein wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and do cd P:/ before starting lyx, in order to get it

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Arnstein wrote: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread David Arnstein
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and do cd P:/ before starting lyx, in order to get it to work correctly. In this case, P: is the