Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The Pre5 doesn't have a configure file to execute > >> the several ./configure switches in Enrico's Howto. > > > > Are you sure? The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded from > > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/ had one ... > > > > Yes, I am sure that in both lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 (or tar.gz) > there is no configure file. Nor is there an autogen.sh file > nor a configure.ac. All of those files are missing, the ones > you would normally expect to see in lyx-devel.
Just to be sure I have downloaded again ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 and those files are there... > > cd lyx-1.4.0pre5 > > ./autogen.sh > > I don't see how it is possible to run this command as the files > are non-existent. The files can be found in the cvs lyx-devel > directory, but your instructions don't say to use cvs for > obtaining installation files which don't come as bz2 or tar.gz > you say "Unpack lyx-1.4.x.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/src > >> >(replace x ^ to match your archive name)" But the files *are* there... Anyway, things do not change with a cvs version, simply replace "lyx-1.4.x" with "lyx-devel" ;-) > I've already had the experience of not being able to compile > the cvs files, but I was able to compile Lyx1.4.0pre3, so it is > by no means certain that one can just adapt your configure > switches to the current cvs files. Try it, it should work. > Lyx1.4.0pre3 came with about 20 files not contained in > Lyx1.4.0pre5. Since you say the files were contained > > "The lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 archive I downloaded ... had one" > > it seems that somebody has deleted files from > lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 and tar.gz for that matter and repackaged. > (no configure, configure.ac or autogen.sh plus many others) I think that nobody did that ;-) It may be a problem with the software you used to unpack the archive. Try using the cygwin tools: cd /usr/local/src tar jxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.bz2 or tar zxvf /path/to/lyx-1.4.0pre5.tar.gz if you downloaded the .gz version. > The problem I reported remains just as murky, Don't be desperate, try again. I am sure it is not so difficult. Did you succeeded in compiling Qt? -- Enrico
