Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> I assume that the idea is to have a
> Angus> "--packaging={windows,macosx,posix}" option to configure. Not
> Angus> passing "--packaging=foo" on the command line will lead to the
> Angus> "native" packaging being chosen. The three macros above will be
> Angus> defined appropriately in config.h.
>
> Yes. The following patch does just that.
>
> Angus> However, it seems that this option should have an effect only
> Angus> on the Mac and, moreover, will respect only the {macosx,posix}
> Angus> strings.
>
> Let's say we trust configure to do the right thing. So if macosx is
> the packaging, the user should really have the relevant API available.
Seems fair.
> I have to note that the patch below has issues:
>
> - the places where autoconf wants to install system_lyxdir is always
> $datadir/$PACKAGE (hardcoded in the Makefile, not produced by
> configure). This means that we get for MacOSX
>
> Packaging: macosx
> LyX binary dir: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS
> LyX files dir: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx
>
> It should be possible to hack around it, but I suspect it is asking
> for trouble. I propose to keep this extra 'lyx' directory under
> Resources to avoid problems. OK?
Fine. Then that is what I'll do in package.C. I'll even make a note to
this effect in the appropriate function ;-)
> - the same holds for windows, but here the situation is a bit worse:
>
> configure: configuring in lib/reLyX
> configure: running /bin/sh '../../../1.3.x/lib/reLyX/configure'
> --prefix=C:Program Files/LyX '--enable-maintainer-mode'
> '--disable-debug' '--disable-optimization' '--with-frontend=qt'
> '--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt-3.1' '--with-packaging=windows'
> --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=../../../1.3.x/lib/reLyX configure:
> WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING:
> invalid host type: Files/LyX configure: error: expected an absolute
> directory name for --prefix: C:Program configure: error: /bin/sh
> '../../../1.3.x/lib/reLyX/configure' failed for lib/reLyX
>
> However, I do not know what happens on mingw/msys, of course.
I'm sure that it'll be same, but everything appears to be fine on this
linux machine (using the existing configure script) if I
quote 'C:/Program Files/LyX'...
$ ../configure --prefix='C:/Program Files/LyX' --enable-maintainer-mode
Configuration
Host type: alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu
Special build flags: warnings assertions xforms-image-loader
C Compiler: gcc
C Compiler flags: -g -O2
C++ Compiler: g++ (3.3.5)
C++ Compiler flags: -W -Wall
Linker flags:
Frontend: xforms
libXpm version: 4.11
libforms version: 1.0.0
LyX binary dir: C:/Program Files/LyX/bin
LyX files dir: C:/Program Files/LyX/share/lyx
Configuration of LyX was successful.
> Anyway, here is it so that you can play a bit. I do not have specific
> plans to improve it, so it's yours if you want it.
Many, many thanks for doing this JMarc. I'll try it out this evening.
--
Angus
