I managed to compile with the Qt frontend, but:
(gdb) run Starting program: /local/lasgoutt/qtbuild/src/./lyx Qt: gdb: -nograb added to command-line options. Use the -dograb option to enforce grabbing. Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "fantomas:0.0". Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x401e08b7 in QObject::queryMetaObject () at eval.c:41 41 eval.c: No such file or directory. in eval.c (gdb) bt #0 0x401e08b7 in QObject::queryMetaObject () at eval.c:41 #1 0x401dfdfa in QObject::connect () at eval.c:41 #2 0x08389fb7 in QContentPane::QContentPane (this=0x86a6638, parent=0x86a59d0) at ../../../../lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/QContentPane.C:89 #3 0x083841ca in QWorkArea::QWorkArea (this=0x86a59d0) at ../../../../lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/QWorkArea.C:44 #4 0x08307ad1 in WorkAreaFactory::create (x=0, y=0, w=690, h=510) at ../../../../lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/WorkAreaFactory.C:19 #5 0x080653f8 in BufferView::Pimpl::Pimpl (this=0x86a58f8, bv=0x86a5898, owner=0xbffff384, xpos=0, ypos=0, width=690, height=510) at ../../lyx-devel/src/BufferView_pimpl.C:111 #6 0x080609e9 in BufferView::BufferView (this=0x86a5898, owner=0xbffff384, xpos=0, ypos=0, width=690, height=510) at ../../lyx-devel/src/BufferView.C:65 #7 0x08302daa in QtView::QtView (this=0xbffff30c, width=690, height=510) at ../../../../lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/QtView.C:60 #8 0x083093fa in lyx_gui::start (batch=@0xbffff4e0, files=0xbffff478) at ../../../../lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/lyx_gui.C:91 #9 0x08122f88 in LyX::LyX (this=0xbffff4dc, argc=@0xbffff4f0, argv=0xbffff554) at ../../lyx-devel/src/lyx_main.C:159 #10 0x08187586 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff554) at ../../lyx-devel/src/main.C:31 #11 0x4063b306 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8187420 <main>, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbffff554, init=0x805d404 <_init>, fini=0x8487e44 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000d2dc <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff54c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 (gdb) Hints? JMarc