On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Hello, > > I write to you as the respective maintainers of the LyX port for > OpenBSD and NetBSD > http://pkgsrc.se/editors/lyx-qt > http://ports.openbsd.nu/print/lyx > > Recently, we managed (after much difficulties) to fix a bug on FreeBSD > where LyX would not even start. The reason why that the wchar_t > support in libstdc++ is no usable (due to the new unicode capabilities > of LyX). > > Therefore we have now the following code in config.h.in: > > /* > * the FreeBSD libc uses UCS4, but libstdc++ has no proper wchar_t > * support compiled in: > * http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#3_9 > * And we are not interested at all what libc > * does: What we need is a 32bit wide wchar_t, and a libstdc++ that > * has the needed wchar_t support and uses UCS4. Whether it > * implements this with the help of libc, or whether it has own code > * does not matter for us, because we don't use libc directly (Georg) > */ > #if defined(HAVE_WCHAR_T) && SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4 && ! defined(__FREEBSD__) > # define USE_WCHAR_T > #endif > > > Is there something we shall do concerning your respective platforms? > > Regards, > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes (LyX developer) > > PS: please forward this message to the relevant persons if needed.
I won't be able to check this for about three weeks. Thanks for the email and I will try to reply in a few weeks. Jeremy C. Reed
