On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 04:42:35PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:09:15PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> This past week I've been getting daily build failures of LyX on Ubuntu >> >> Precise (see build log link below). The configure process finishes >> >> like this: >> >> configure: creating ./config.status >> >> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in' >> >> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1 >> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»' >> >> make: *** [build] Error 2 >> >> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 >> >> >> >> >> >> Is there something that might have changed in a recent commit to >> >> generate such an error? Strangely, none of the other Ubuntu distros >> >> seems to be affected. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Liviu >> > >> > We just had a thread a couple of days ago that we CC'ed you on. JMarc >> > posted a patch. Did you receive the emails? Maybe you wrote this email >> > before and it was just sent now. >> > >> Thanks Scott. I can confirm that JMarc's commit fixes things, and now >> daily builds on Precise no longer fail. > > Thanks for the confirmation. It will be interesting to see how long we > can keep 12.04 alive. It is good to know that once 16.04 is released LyX > can be easily built on three LTS releases. That's pretty good. > Precise is supported by Canonical until 2017, and Precise ships Qt 4.8.1. As long as we keep minimum requirements to <= 4.8.x, probably not before subsequent major release, we'll probably keep supporting this LTS release. Canonical will likely stop supporting Precise (including Launchpad builds) well before LyX becomes incompatible with Precise.
Liviu > Scott -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
