Georg Baum wrote:
Am Freitag, 14. April 2006 18:41 schrieb Enrico Forestieri:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
It simply should never be invoked by hand. This is unsupported.
But the installer suggests doing that when it fails to run configure.
I know. I still think it would be better to fix the installer. Or
implement what Jean-Marc told several times: Only run configure from
within LyX and write into the user support directory, don't run it at
install time anymore at all. I think the latter would not be too
difficult.
One cannot argue against the virtue of fixing the installer, but there
are other times when running it manually might be necessary. Sometimes
a working copy of LyX stops working because some malign external force
deleted/damaged the configuration files. If LyX will not start, you
cannot reconfigure from within, so your only options are to run the
script manually or reinstall. My vote is to run manually.
/Paul
