>
> 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

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