John Kane wrote:
I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory
(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path
No it was not. I've added it. Still getting the error
after restarting LyX
That's not surprising. Have you tried Edit->Reconfigure after adding it
to the LyX path?
> But DOS is not that far removed from punch cards!
Which worked admirably, and hence had to be superseded by something
newer and less reliable.
Another related question:if you click Help->LaTeX configuration in
LyX, what do you see for the following: the date
the file was generated
I get “???”
the date of the LaTeX version (section 1);
I get “???”
which standard classes were found (section 3 -- each
class has a Found: yes/no entry)?
I get “???” for all classes
Ok, that confirms that the configuration script failed to run. The
usual causes are among the following: it couldn't find sh, grep or sed
(presumably remedied by adding the msys\1.0\bin directory to the LyX
path); you had a bad (old) version of sed (ruled out in your case by
using MinSYS 1.0); the configuration script failed to find a working
copy of latex.exe (unlikely given that the MiKTeX bin directory is on
your system path and you got the latex version number when you tested
it); or the configuration results got written to an inaccessible
directory. The last one would likely involve some sort of permissions
issue with your "personal" application data directory.
If you have not tried Edit->Reconfigure since adding the msys\1.0\bin
directory to the LyX internal path prefix, that is the next order of
business. If that fails to resolve things, open a DOS window in the
directory where the configure script lives and run 'sh configure >
myresults.txt' there. It should run now that the msys\1.0\bin directory
is on your system path (you did add it there as well, via My Computer,
right?). Post myresults.txt so we can see if something went splat.
I checked to local stores and not a wolverine to be
seen. Would a fisher do?
Not really. You can find an ample supply of wolverines on the
University of Michigan campus (Ann Arbor, MI, USA). It's also the state
animal of Michigan, but IIRC it's not indigenous, so I suppose the ones
at UM are out-of-state students.
Paul
