On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:16:30PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
>
> No, we have been through this before. Any distribution that requires the kernel
> headers via the symlink like this is broken. Most modern ones are fixed now.
>
> For the broken distributions, you *must* include the kernel headers in
> the correct place if you hope to compile programs. This is simply a
> requirement of the distribution in question. It has *nothing* to do with
> LyX, and we should not have any special-case test.
>
> Hopefully in two years everyone's distribution will be fixed and this issue
> won't arise.
>
Sorry for being not clear enough. Hopefully now better:
- I agree that it is not a LyX fault.
- I agree that it is a problem of the SuSE distribution (in this case).
- I suggest to add a small text notice within the INSTALL or within the
^^^^
configure-produced warning that xforms is not working like the
following:
"This xforms problem might be due to missing Linux kernel header
files"
Thanks,
Frank
