On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. April 2006 18:08 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > > I already suggested to Paul a couple of fixes but he said they didn't > > worked. I think there is another problem here. Your fix to bug 2285 > > will not work on Windows when the configure script is invoked by hand > > form the libdir location. The reason is that LyX adds the bindir to > > its PATH, so Tools->Reconfigure will work, but bindir is not in the > > PATH when you invoke configure by hand. > > It simply should never be invoked by hand. This is unsupported.
But the installer suggests doing that when it fails to run configure. > > In the past I had already suggested adding a configure.bat to the > > configure script. This .bat file, which I attach here again, simply > > adds the LyX bindir and the \path_prefix to the PATH before calling > > the configure script proper. The .bat file should only be used when > > reconfiguring by hand in libdir. > > I don't see the need for doing that. If that is needed because the > installer does not run the configure script then it would better to find > out the reason for this and fix the installer rather than inventing > workarounds. I agree, but it seems that it can still fail even if Angus tried to fix that. If the installer fails, LyX cannot be launched and people runs configure by hand... > > -- > > Enrico > > > > PS: I am CC'ing you both as this is the fourth time that I try to > > send this message but it doesn't show up. I suspect it is due to > > the attachment. > > .bat files are not allowed. I was suspecting that and even tried compressing it but no way :( -- Enrico
