Thank you very much for your encouragement Lazlo !
I couldn't have lyx 1.2 working but latex and and dvi don't work either in that distribution. I don't know what rpm is missing (gv always shows grabage, but xdvi works fine) . I could however install lyx 1.2 rebuilding from tar.gz over RH 7.1. It is important to have .h's from xforms besides xform packages (I used 0.88). Lyx compiles and installs painless ! Thank you again and hope this could be useful for other people. Regards Claudio Pastorino PS: all versions of xforms and xforms-devel can be get easily from http://rpmfind.net Laszlo E. Szabo wrote: > I cannot answer your question. This is just an encouragement: I have no > problem with RH7.3 + lyx-1.2.0-1rh73-xforms089.i386.rpm or > xforms-0.89-1.i386.rpm (I don't remember which one) + lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz. > > Best, > Laszlo E. Szabo > > Claudio Pastorino wrote: >> Hi, >> I have just installed Red Hat 7.3, xforms 0.89 and the compiled lyx rpm >> for RH 7.3. The installation is painless but when I try to see the >> postscript from the view menu, all the words which shows gv are garbash. >> Do anyone know the cause ? >> >> Just one more problem, this time in Red Hat 7.1 rebuilding the .src.rpm >> package, I get the errors at the end of the mail. Is it a problem with >> xforms ? >> Thank you very much >> >> Claudio Pastorino >> >> >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x259): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_lsize' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x263): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_lalign' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x273): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_callback' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x294): undefined reference to `fl_add_button' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x2a4): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_lsize' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x2b4): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_callback' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x2dd): undefined reference to `fl_add_button' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x305): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_shortcut' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x30f): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_lsize' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x31f): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_callback' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x34b): undefined reference to `fl_add_button' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x373): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_shortcut' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x37d): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_lsize' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x38d): undefined reference to >> `fl_set_object_callback' >> form_maths_matrix.o(.text+0x392): undefined reference to `fl_end_form' >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> make[3]: *** [lyx] Error 1 >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lyx-1.2.0/src' >> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lyx-1.2.0/src' >> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lyx-1.2.0/src' >> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40145 (%build) >> >> > >