Vinay Ramnath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:14:06PM +0100, Vinay Ramnath wrote:
>>
>>>Nope, didn't work. My C++ compiler doesn't seem to suffice. I use SuSE
>>>8.0 with gcc as compiler. During configuration, the machine complaints
>>>that it cannot execute `cc1plus'.
>>
>>
>> Looks like a broken gcc installation. Can you compile a simple "hello
>> world" program?
>
> Well, I just reinstalled gcc, which seems to be a C compiler. Since it
> was my C++ compiler that was lacking, if I did have any, I also
> installed gpp, the C++ compiler. This probably solved it, 'cause
> configuration went fine. The machine recognized gcc as my C compiler and
> gpp as my C++ compiler, I needed both.
>
> Now I'm facing new difficulties.
>
> 1. It can not find libforms or libxforms. Since I do have XForms
> installed, the 0.89-1 rpm, I have to direct it there with the
> --with-extra-lib option, according to the INSTALL file. I do not have
> the faintest idea where these files should be. Could you help?
>
> 2. It cannot find forms.h. I suppose they should be part of XForms as
> well. Might there be something wrong with my XForms package? According
> to the INSTALL file, this could be the case if I haven't installed the
> kernel sources. Does that mean that I shouldn't have the rpm installed
> but have compiled it from source code instead? Do you have a good
> solution for this. If I do have to remove my current XForms installation
> and install it from source instead, LyX 1.2.1, which uses my current
> XForms, might not work anymore, even if I install the new version,
> right? Or will everything go fine as long as i run ldconfig after make
> install?
>
> Well, there is progress though... :)
>
> Vinay
Hello, Vinay.
Your you should find your xforms library at PATH/libforms.so, where PATH is
probably /usr/lib but may be /usr/local/lib.
If that doesn't find it, type at the command line
$ find / -name "libforms.so*"
You may need to run this as root.
Similarly, forms.h should be found in one of /usr/include, /usr/include/X11,
/usr/local/include or /usr/local/X11/include.
I would recommend (strongly) however, that you consider throwing out xforms
0.89.1 and replacing it with the newly released xforms 1.0; it fixes many,
many bugs.
If you are bent on compiling everything, get it from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/xforms-1.0-release.src.rpm
If you don't care about compiling xforms but still want to compile LyX, then
you'll want
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-devel-1.0-release.i386.rpm
Finally, if you just want a working LyX, get
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/libforms-1.0-release.i386.rpm
and the appropriate LyX rpm from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.3/
HTH,
--
Angus
