On Thursday 28 March 2002 2:48 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> I think that compiling on Tru64 is now sufficiently
> Angus> straightforward that users should be able to do it with the
> Angus> help of a Readme only. Nonetheless, it's still sufficiently
> Angus> convoluted that this info is probably best placed in a separate
> Angus> INSTALL.Tru64 file.
>
> Angus> What do you think of the attached patch?
>
> Why do you need to set CPP?

I found that the configure script failed without this. It uses the 
prepreocessor to check whether header files exist, not the c compiler.

> Why do you need to set -I and -L options? --with-extra-prefix does it
> perfectly well (it is your right to do as you wish, but I do not want
> to advise to do that in a README).

Ditto. Else the preprocesor can't find stuff.

Having said that, I discovered all this by trial and error. It's possible 
that things will work without CPP. Will investigate.

> Is the problem with std::count still relevant now that we have
> lyx::count?

I believe that we check only for the existence of std::count, not whether it 
returns a sane value.

> Tell me (again?) what the problem was with autoconf 2.13.

In what regard?

> The lyxsum.C problem should be investigated, methinks

So do I. After Easter.
Angus

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