On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:57:31AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> > Note that configure.py already has an option (--without-latex-config)
> > to create a default textclass.lst file, so maybe a new option could be
> > added to lyx such that on startup a reconfigure is forced by passing
> > that option to configure.py. Once lyx is started, a normal reconfiguration
> > could be attempted from within it.
>
> That is not an option. The reason why lyx has to run full configure.py
> at start up (answering Abdel's question) is for command line use. I
> heard from JMarc that some packagers install lyx and use it to convert
> some .lyx files. In this case, it is inconvenient to run lyx first to
> configure, and run lyx the second time to convert, especially when you
> do not know if lyx has already been configured correctly.
I think that there is another option. ATM, lyx decides that a
reconfiguration is needed when the timestamp of configure.py is
newer than that of the .lst files. Why not adding the condition
that they are also empty? See the attached.
--
Enrico
Index: src/LyX.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/LyX.cpp (revision 19915)
+++ src/LyX.cpp (working copy)
@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ bool needsUpdate(string const & file)
string const absfile = FileName(addName(
package().user_support().absFilename(),
file)).toFilesystemEncoding();
- return (! fs::exists(absfile))
+ return (! fs::exists(absfile)) || fs::is_empty(absfile)
|| (fs::last_write_time(configure_script)
> fs::last_write_time(absfile));
}
