Hi,
I'm trying desperately to get LyX running with the recently opensourced Xforms. Haven't succeeded yet, but found a few irregular behaviours with the LyX configure script. When I install XForms, I get (by default): include/X11/forms.h lib/libforms.a lib/libforms.so -> libforms.so.0 lib/libforms.so.0 This "libforms.a" is not picked up by the configure script and the configure ends with an error. However, when I add the following link in lib/: libxforms.a -> libforms.a the configure script picks this one up all of a sudden. This is odd, isn't it? Here is the relevant output when running the configure script (./configure | grep forms): --------------------------------------------------------------------- checking what frontend should be used as main GUI... xforms checking for fl_initialize in -lforms... no checking for fl_initialize in -lxforms... yes checking for X11/forms.h... yes checking xforms header version... 0.9999.0 [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Why "-lforms... no" and "-lxforms... yes" ? Any ideas why this is happening? Regards, Rob.
