On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:59:37PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It is used by LyX to set the PATH prefix. In *nix it should be omitted, > > as everything needed should already be in the PATH. In the native win32 > > LyX it will be set by the installer, so also in this case it is probably > > not needed. This leaves cygwin (I don't know for Mac) where the above > > is to be taken as the default (it can be later override by the user). > > Setting it in the installer is a kludge. The correct place to set this thing > is > in the configure script so that it can be updated as you install software. We > couldn't do that before now because shell scripts have "limited" support for > interogation of the registry ;-)
If you had chosen cygwin instead of MSYS, you could have enjoyed the regtool utility ;-) Another favorite of mine is /proc/registry by which you can browse the registry settings as if it was a filesystem. > And LyX itself can remain registry-ignorant. I really hate the registry thing :( -- Enrico
