I have just installed Slackware 7.0, and am attempting to compile LyX
1.1.6.
Iam not succeding. Could anyone please help?
The LyX installation instructions say that:
"As of LyX version 1.1.5, you will need to have Xforms library and
header
version 0.88 or 0.89."
and
"In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 (or newer; 4.8 rumoured
to work)."
These do not come with Slackware 7.0 so I have installed them, so my
machine has this on it:
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h
/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib/libXpm.so.4 -> libXpm.so.4.11
/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
and
/usr/lib/libform.a
/usr/lib/libform.so -> libform.so.5
/usr/lib/libform.so.5 -> libform.so.5.0
/usr/lib/libform.so.5.0
/usr/lib/libform_g.a
/usr/lib/libform_p.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88
However when I run ./configure in the LyX sourcedirectory the final
message is this:
Configuration:
Source code location: .
C++ Compiler: g++
C++ Compiler flags: -g -O2 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
C Compiler: gcc
C Compiler flags: -g -O2
LyX binary dir: /opt/kde/bin
LyX files dir: /opt/kde/share/lyx
Special flags: frontend-xforms included-libsigc
**** The following problems have been detected by configure.
**** Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
**** (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)
** Cannot find libXpm. Please check that the Xpm library
is correctly installed on your system.
** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms
library
is correctly installed on your system.
** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
is correctly installed on your system.
I have looked in info about the configure script and looked at the
config.log file that was produced (see the attachment) but, not being
very experienced in this level of programming remain unenlightened
as to what I should do.
The following from config.log seemed most likley to be related to my problem:
###############################################################################
int main() {
XpmCreateBufferFromImage()
; return 0; }
configure:8054: checking for X11/xpm.h
configure:8064: g++ -E -isystem /usr/X11R6/include conftest.C >/dev/null
2>conftest.out
configure:8136: checking xpm header version
configure:8179: checking for fl_initialize in -lforms
configure:8201: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -isystem
/usr/X11R6/include conftest.C -lforms -lSM -lICE -liberty -lc -lm
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 1>&5
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lforms: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 8187 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char fl_initialize();
and
int main() {
fl_initialize()
; return 0; }
configure:8220: checking for fl_initialize in -lxforms
configure:8242: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -isystem
/usr/X11R6/include conftest.C -lxforms -lSM -lICE -liberty -lc -lm
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 1>&5
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lxforms: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 8228 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char fl_initialize();
