Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013 um 09:06:19, schrieb stefano franchi 
<stefano.fran...@gmail.com>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote:
> 
> > Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013 um 08:31:49, schrieb stefano franchi <
> > stefano.fran...@gmail.com>
> > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:54 AM, stefano franchi
> > > <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Configuration of the recently released 2.1.beta on my Archlinux system
> > > > gives  python-related errors (see below).
> > > >
> > > > It looks like a python2 /python3 issue. On Archlinux, python defaults
> > to
> > > > python3, while the executable for python 2.7 is  /usr/bin/python2
> > > >
> > > > Interestingly, configure itself ends successfully. My first attempt at
> > > > compiling (i.e. make) failed immediately with a different
> > python-related
> > > > error. I tried again (without reconfiguring) and it worked.
> > > >
> > > > However, I do get the same error in the console when starting lyx. Lyx
> > > > starts anyways, so I am not sure how serious this problem is.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > After a bit more testing, my guess is that  the problem is most likely
> > > with  the (presumably) python script(s) that locate the existing LaTex
> > > installation and configures LyX accordingly. That's what fails, thereby
> > > making Lyx basically unusable.
> > >
> > > Could anyone tell me which scripts are responsible for LaTeX
> > configuration?
> > > I looked at a promising /lib/scripts/TeXFiles.py, but that one does not
> > > seem to be the root of the problem.
> >
> > What about ./lib/configure.py?
> >
> >
> Hmm, I missed that. Will look into it.
> 
> 
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> >
> > Have you tried the cmake build?
> >
> >
> I did. same problem (in fact I found out more about the issue by looking at
> the results of the cmake build. Autoconf was absolutely cryptic to me).
> 

I would try to patch ./src/support/os.cpp:103 (Dont know the globbing syntax 
here, (sh?))
        QStringList list = qdir.entryList(QStringList("python?"));

> S.

        Kornel

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