Hello!
I maintain the port of LyX on FreeBSD and was checking, how the new version is
built, so I can update the port quicker, when you make the final release of
1.5.0 (it is currently at 1.4.4).
Here are the problems I had to work around:
1. Boost -- it seems, that some of the recent changes in LyX code require the
most recent Boost-1.34 (lookup_errno, for example). Our devel/boost port is
not yet updated to version 1.34, but that's coming soon (I had to use a patch
released by the boost port's maintainer). This was not an issue with
LyX-1.4.4, where our port was also ignoring the version of Boost bundled with
LyX (I strongly oppose such bundling of 3rd-party software personally.).
2. -lc -- explicitly linking with libc is wrong, AFAIK, but the
configure-generated Makefiles do this. This was an issue with earlier LyX
versions as well.
3. Qt4 -- the abandonment of other front-ends (especially -- of Qt3) is a bit
disruptive, because Qt3 (and gtk) are already found on most desktops as
almost everyone uses either GNOME or KDE. Qt4 is "the wave of the future", so
I'm not really complaining here.
But, for a while Qt4 and Qt3 will often be found _on the same machine_.
Currently, I have to patch LyX' src/frontends/qt4/Makefile to make sure,
the -I/usr/local/include is _the last_ of the QT4_INCLUDES, _and_ insert
the -I/usr/local/include/Qt at the beginning. Unfortunately, specifying the
correct location with ``--with-qt4-includes'' does not have any effect.
I never tried using Qt4 with earlier LyX versions.
4. Parallel builds. Specifying `-j4' to the top-level gmake breaks build.
Adding the flag to AM_MAKEFLAGS (so that it is passed to all sub-makes)
works. LyX takes a while to build, but more and more machines offer multiple
CPU cores, so supporting parallel builds would be quite useful.
Never tried it with previous LyX versions -- may not be a new problem.
5. tests -- when doing `gmake check' one of the three tests fails:
PASS: test_convert
FAIL: test_filetools
PASS: test_lstrings
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1 of 3 tests failed
Please report to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
Here are the differences between the output of filetools and the pre-recorded
regfiles/filetools:
./bar/ ./bar/
./foo/bar/ ./foo/bar/
././bar/ ./bar/
././foo/bar/ ./foo/bar/
/bar/ /bar/
/foo/bar/ /foo/bar/
./foo/bar/ ./foo/bar/
././foo/bar/ ./foo/bar/
/foo/bar/ /foo/bar/
Not sure, what the right fix is -- in my opinion, both are wrong :-) The
normalized path should not include the leading "./" at all: "foo/bar/" should
be the answer. Is the path-normalization performed by Boost?.. All tests were
passing in LyX 1.4.4.
I will now try to use the freshly-built 1.5.0rc2 (with post-build self-testing
disabled). If I don't report anything, it must be all good :-)
Thank you! Yours,
-mi
