I have sucessfully installed the new Lyx1.5beta both on Debian Etch and Windows XP with no trouble at all. A great piece of work it is. When I tried installing it on Madriva the ./configure worked fine, but the make command crashed immidiately on:
make all-am make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mousomer/Download/lyx-1.5.0beta1 /boost/libs/filesystem/src' if /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../src -Winvalid-pch --include=./pch.h -DBOOST_USER_CONFIG="<config.h>" -I../../../../boost -Wextra -Wall -g -O2 -MT exception.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/exception.Tpo" -c -o exception.lo exception.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/exception.Tpo" ".deps/exception.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/exception.Tpo"; exit 1; fi g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../src -Winvalid-pch --include=./pch.h "-DBOOST_USER_CONFIG=<config.h>" -I../../../../boost -Wextra -Wall -g -O2 -MT exception.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/exception.Tpo -c exception.cpp -o exception.o <command line>:1: fatal error: can't read PCH file: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[1]: *** [exception.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mousomer/Download/lyx-1.5.0beta1 /boost/libs/filesystem/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 The pch.h file reffered to exists in the directory /boost/libs/lifesystem/src/. What could the problem be? -- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single oy. Omer Moussaffi