I am installing lyx-1.0.0pre2 on a new machine (Linux Slackware 3.5).
I installed xforms 0.88 first. And that seemed OK.
Then I did ./configure and make for lyx. At the end it said:
"Can't find libforms or libxforms"
Then I went to
/usr/local/xforms/FORMS
I checked my other machine where LyX w
Bill,
In general you can tell configure where to search for extra libs
and include files with the option:
./configure --with-extra-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-extra-inc=/usr/local/include
Here demonstrated to search files under /usr/local/{lib,include} where
xforms was installed in the old days.
Hi Roland thanks for your fast reply!
Well this will sound really stupid but the main problem for me was the
message from configure that it couldn't find
libforms
I am really so clueless that I didn't know they meant
libforms.so
So as you suggested I grabbed libforms.so from the other machine (w
On 03-Dec-98 Bill Simpson wrote:
> I am installing lyx-1.0.0pre2 on a new machine (Linux Slackware 3.5).
>
> I installed xforms 0.88 first. And that seemed OK.
>
> Then I did ./configure and make for lyx. At the end it said:
> "Can't find libforms or libxforms"
>
> Then I went to
> /usr/local
> "Francesco" == Francesco Lamonica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Francesco> btw, have you removed the config.cache file, before of
Francesco> re-running ./configure?
LyX's configure takes care of removing config.cache when such an error
is reported.
Francesco> also, sometimes configure searc
> "Bill" == Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> Hi Roland thanks for your fast reply! Well this will sound
Bill> really stupid but the main problem for me was the message from
Bill> configure that it couldn't find libforms I am really so clueless
Bill> that I didn't know they mean
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>> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 23:14:50 +0100 (CET)
>> From: Francesco Lamonica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: xforms troubles
>>
>>
>> On 03-Dec-98 Bill Simpson wrote:
>> > I am
> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> btw, have you removed the config.cache file, before of re-running
Jean-Pierre> ./configure?
Jean-Pierre> A make clean is even better I think, you really restart
Jean-Pierre> from scratch.
'make clean' does not remove co
>
> Things would be easier if people noticed that there is a Readme file
> in xofmrs distribution which explains that a 'make install' will do
> all for you.
I did the make install for xforms.
I read the Readme, it was not helpful in solving my problem.
Cheers,
Bill
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> "Bill" == Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Things would be easier if people noticed that there is a Readme
>> file in xforms distribution which explains that a 'make install'
>> will do all for you.
Bill> I did the make install for xforms. I read the Readme, it was
Bill> not h
JMarc, as I said before I have it working now. I just copied over one
file from an old installation (libforms.so). I don't know what went
wrong, but all is well now. Yes I have linux. Thanks.
Bill
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> "Bill" == Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> JMarc, as I said before I have it working now. I just copied
Bill> over one file from an old installation (libforms.so). I don't
Bill> know what went wrong, but all is well now. Yes I have
Bill> linux. Thanks.
OK, it seems that I am
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