Making lyx a standard cygwin packages?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
I put both versions at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/lyx-1.4.1-cygwin.tar.gz but had almost no feedback apart a couple of bug reports. I think that, counting me, there are at least 3 LyX/Cygwin users. The lesser, the better? :-) Have you ever thought of pushing lyx to the official cygwin

Cygwin build with cygwin/qt3?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Dear all, I am trying a native cygwin build, The wiki page (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin) asks me to build qt by myself, but I notice that qt3 is already included in cygwin. Is there any particular reason we do not use it? Bo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Move ln.exe out of the way and run configure again, then "cp -p" will be used. mv /usr/bin/ln.exe /usr/bin/ln-no.exe That is a neat treat. Anyway, in the last step, when I run make install, I get ../../config/py-compile /cygdrive/c/Python23/python does not exist. Any idea? Bo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > I have another problem, I use cygwin/svn and cygwin/autoconf etc. > Under tex2lyx/, the makefile generates symbolic links to > ../../src/FloatList.C etc, but the mingw g++ does not recognize these > files I get some undefined symbols e

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 29 April 2006 16:25, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > You mean nobody explained you? I understand your reaction then. I've > read a bit the archive and here is my interpretation: In the old old > days when men were men and lyx was a pioneer project, there were huge > flame wars among develo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
I have another problem, I use cygwin/svn and cygwin/autoconf etc. Under tex2lyx/, the makefile generates symbolic links to ../../src/FloatList.C etc, but the mingw g++ does not recognize these files I get some undefined symbols even after I copy the files over. Bo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng a écrit : >>> Just grab the package from gnuwin32 >>> (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip?download) >>> > > I should have got zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip, not bin! > > Problem solved. Hum I told you so a few hours ago ;-) No. You told me not to use the zlib.h from

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
>>> Just grab the package from gnuwin32 >>> (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip?download) >>> > > I should have got zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip, not bin! > > Problem solved. Hum I told you so a few hours ago ;-) No. You told me not to use the zlib.h from /usr/include of cygwi

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng a écrit : On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has become clear to me that cygwin autoconf etc can not handle Just grab the package from gnuwin32 (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip?download) I should have got zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip, not bin!

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has become clear to me that cygwin autoconf etc can not handle Just grab the package from gnuwin32 (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip?download) I should have got zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip, not bin! Problem solved. Bo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
It has become clear to me that cygwin autoconf etc can not handle AC_CHECK_HEADERS(zlib.h, [AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzopen, [LIBS="$LIBS -lz"], LYX_ERROR([zlib not found!]))], [LYX_ERROR([zlib.h not found!])]) If I change these to AC_CHECK_HEADERS(zlib.h) AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzopen, [LIBS="$LIBS -lz"], L

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:36:49PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > ... > >>> all in a line. Failing that, I have other ideas specifically for > >>> --with-extra-prefix, if you are interested. > >

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: ... all in a line. Failing that, I have other ideas specifically for --with-extra-prefix, if you are interested. I am, I think we should fix the configure script so that the extra options accept ';'

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:47:56PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > >>> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:30:38PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>> > >>> Abdel,

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:47:56PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:30:38PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdel, Please try the following (set the env var on the same configure line) PATH_SEPARATOR=';' ../co

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:47:56PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:30:38PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > > Abdel, > > > > Please try the following (set the env var on the same configure line) > > > > PATH_SEPARATOR=';' ../conf

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:30:38PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdel, Please try the following (set the env var on the same configure line) PATH_SEPARATOR=';' ../configure --with-extra-prefix="d:/mingw;d:/program/Aspell-0.60.4" ... and tell me if that works.

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:30:38PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : > > Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : > >> Bo Peng a écrit : > Just grab the package from gnuwin32 > > >>> Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. > >>> > >>> I am trying the cygwin rout

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Just to illustrate my case, try to compile the attached file with the following commands (adjust to your local paths): g++ -I/cygdrive/d/program/Aspell-0.60.4/include -c config.C g++ -Id:/program/As

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : Bo Peng a écrit : Just grab the package from gnuwin32 Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, zlib.h and zlib.a are in place. Can I use them directly? We

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Just to illustrate my case, try to compile the attached file with the > following commands (adjust to your local paths): > g++ -I/cygdrive/d/program/Aspell-0.60.4/include -c config.C > g++ -Id:/program/Aspell-0.60.4/include -c

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:49:40PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Bo Peng a écrit : Just grab the package from gnuwin32 Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, zlib.h and zlib.a are

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:49:40PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Bo Peng a écrit : > >> Just grab the package from gnuwin32 > >> > > Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. > > > > I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, > > zlib.h and zlib.a are in pl

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:42:23AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > Just grab the package from gnuwin32 > > > Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. > > I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, > zlib.h and zlib.a are in place. Can I use them directly? On Cygwin

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng a écrit : On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, yes and no. If you use them you will end-up with an executable > that will depend on cygwin. So it is better to use the mingw version and > link to it dynamically with the gnuwin32 package. I used your gzip version and

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : Bo Peng a écrit : Just grab the package from gnuwin32 Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, zlib.h and zlib.a are in place. Can I use them directly? Well, yes and no. If you use th

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, yes and no. If you use them you will end-up with an executable > that will depend on cygwin. So it is better to use the mingw version and > link to it dynamically with the gnuwin32 package. I used your gzip version and stil get no zlib.h fo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Well, yes and no. If you use them you will end-up with an executable that will depend on cygwin. So it is better to use the mingw version and link to it dynamically with the gnuwin32 package. I will use them, and ignore aspell (I never did get a working aspell under windows), and see if I can ge

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:25:44PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:36:31PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> It was friday Enrico, Friday! > > > > Please, explain this Friday thing. In my culture Friday is like > > Saturday, or

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng a écrit : Just grab the package from gnuwin32 Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, zlib.h and zlib.a are in place. Can I use them directly? Well, yes and no. If you use them you will end-up with an ex

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Just grab the package from gnuwin32 Thanks I will try that. There are so many options. I am trying the cygwin route, when I install the basic cygwin system, zlib.h and zlib.a are in place. Can I use them directly? Bo

Re: How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng a écrit : Dear all, I am trying to install zlib.dll.zip to my system. I put zlib.h to /MinGW/include and but ./condifure --with-extra-inc=/MinGW/include can not find it. Also, I am not sure if I need to do 'mv zlib.lib libz.a' as suggested by some websites. Just grab the package from g

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:36:31PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It was friday Enrico, Friday! Please, explain this Friday thing. In my culture Friday is like Saturday, or Monday, or... (sorry for being so stupid). You mean nobody explained you? I understand yo

How to install zlib under windows?

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Dear all, I am trying to install zlib.dll.zip to my system. I put zlib.h to /MinGW/include and but ./condifure --with-extra-inc=/MinGW/include can not find it. Also, I am not sure if I need to do 'mv zlib.lib libz.a' as suggested by some websites. Bo

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:36:31PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > It was friday Enrico, Friday! Please, explain this Friday thing. In my culture Friday is like Saturday, or Monday, or... (sorry for being so stupid). -- Enrico

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:21:13PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Michael Gerz a écrit : Gentlemen, I think I have to give some comments on the heated 1.4 vs. 1.5 dis

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:50:29AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > > > > and branch? > > > > > > It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. > > S

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:21:13PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> Michael Gerz a écrit : > >>> Gentlemen, > >>> > >>> I think I have to give some comments on the heated 1.4 vs. 1.5 discu

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:32:06PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > And does your patch to configure.py solve the crash of the "open file" > button? No, sorry. It is an unrelated problem, only showing up because I used a cmd.exe to launch your LyX/Qt4. I did so because from a rxvt terminal I go

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > > and branch? > > It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain (cygwin),

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : If you just copied the exe inside a 1.4.1 directory, I think there is a mismatch between configure.sh and configure.py. Please try the full package. Nope, it was the full

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:42:34AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Enrico" == Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico> It's a benefit/cost ratio, Jean-Marc. I gain nothing in having > Enrico> my patches applied. I can simply patch my version and have a > Enrico> very

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Michael Gerz a écrit : Gentlemen, I think I have to give some comments on the heated 1.4 vs. 1.5 discussion. I've hoped that it would be more heated... like it should be for a decent friday flame w

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Michael Gerz a écrit : > > Gentlemen, > > > > I think I have to give some comments on the heated 1.4 vs. 1.5 discussion. > > I've hoped that it would be more heated... like it should be for a > decent friday flame war but I di

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed > >> runtimes dll: > >> http://younes.a.free.fr/Lyx-15

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Gerz a écrit : Gentlemen, I think I have to give some comments on the heated 1.4 vs. 1.5 discussion. I've hoped that it would be more heated... like it should be for a decent friday flame war but I did not succeed. Except for Enrico and Georg who managed to write one or two bad words

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
> Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. That is a good detective work! I will apply if JMarc does not object. I have to trust Enrico on this though, since I can not test the

Re: 1.5 features

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Because they are already there if they need to. That is fine. Adding them the second time will not change anything. For example, if you use Help>Intro, the Intro file will not be added to recent files. If it is kept open, your patch means the file will be added at restart. This is wrong. Thi

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed runtimes dll: http://younes.a.free.fr/Lyx-15-experimental/lyx-qt4-exe-and-dlls.zip Abdel, I tried your LyX/Qt4 and got a bug report

Bug: Language change in 1.4.1

2006-04-29 Thread Alex
Dear All, I have found something what makes my life hard. I got powerdot into working state, but it is little bit buggy, because I can compile the presentation only with the language set to english. I would need magyar (hungarian) but this an another story My problem: - I make a section he

1.4.2svn fails to read lyxrc.defaults

2006-04-29 Thread Michael Gerz
Hi, when running LyX 1.4.2svn, I get the following error message: Error while reading the configuration file lyxrc.defaults. Please check your installation. Removing ~/.lyx-1.4.2svn didn't help. Does anybody have the same problem? Michael

Re: 1.5 features

2006-04-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> There was the fact that document got added to the recently >> loaded >> list, if I remember. I think this is related to the way >> you add >> these files to the 'files' vector. It may be better (if >> possible) >> to load them directly. >> l

Re: Is this cursor reset necessary?

2006-04-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> What I mean is, it not inside the viewport. Which is the test Martin> used for fitcursor. Do you mean to test whether the operation Martin> actually modifies the cursor (and 'save' does not, of course)? Martin> Would probably wor

Re: Potential LyX 1.4.X patches

2006-04-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Enrico" == Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrico> It's a benefit/cost ratio, Jean-Marc. I gain nothing in having Enrico> my patches applied. I can simply patch my version and have a Enrico> very high value for that ratio. This may seem selfish Enrico> behaviour but gives me m

Re: LyX Meeting

2006-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I could ask our university IT and the faculty of informatics if they > have a room with computers for a meeting. To book a room for 10 - 20 > people for free at the university shouldn't be a problem. > I'm at the university in Freiburg (Breisgau), Germany where also Jürgen > Spit