> > I tested it on cygwin. Here are the results. > > 1) After launching, the script was hanging in checkCygwinPath(). > I had to kill the latex.exe process to let it continue (I use > MikTeX, so latex.exe is a native win32 program, whereas python > is a cygwin application). Doing so, the check for cygwin_path_fix > was wrong, of course.
Was the old configure.py working under this configuration? What will happen if you run latex.exe directly from a cygwin environment? > I think that the configure script should also provide for a default > \path_prefix in lyxrc.default, probably based on platform. When > sys.platform == 'cygwin', it would be: > > \path_prefix "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" Where will it be used? Bo