Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote: > I just hope that the GTK/GNOME frontend becomes a worthwhile compile > ASAP. afaik the gnome frontend is currently more advanced than the KDE one ! > I'd really love to get rid of having to use LyX via the XForms > frontend once and for all... ;-) >

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:06:52PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote: > > > Isn't it a futile effort still using qt-1.4x and KDE-1.x for the KLyX > > port? Wouldn't it make more sense basing this port right away on a > > GPL'ed qt-2.x and the forthcoming KDE-2.x?

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Angus Leeming wrote: > The linker doesn't require the .la files at all. This is something to do with > libtool. OK, so is it correct to insist that libkdecore.la exists ? Can anyone comment ? > Everything makes perfectly too, with no tweaking of src/Makefile when I link

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread Angus Leeming
> > You'll see that it has decided to use the installed kde libraries rather > > than the ones I want! Uses the correct header files though! > > I am guessing that you do not have a libkdecore.la file in the specified > location. Is this correct ? I must admit personally I don't understand the > r

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread Angus Leeming
No, I don't think so. The changes that would need to be made to the code base are minimal and well documented. Porting apps from kde-1.1.2 to kde-2.x is (apparently) very easy. Anyway, the guy doing the port (John Levon) is running kde-1.1.2, so really the question is academic. Feel free to co

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote: > Hi Angus! > > It's great to hear about your success! :-) > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:20:09PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > checking for Qt... libraries /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/lib, > > headers /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/incl

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Angus! It's great to hear about your success! :-) On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:20:09PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > checking for Qt... libraries /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/lib, > headers /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/include [ snip ] > checking for K

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Angus Leeming wrote: > * Recreate configure by running autogen.sh > * Run configure through the shell script that I sent before. Also attached to > this mail. > > Here I get: > checking for Qt... libraries /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/lib, > headers /usr/users/alee

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread Angus Leeming
* Recreate configure by running autogen.sh * Run configure through the shell script that I sent before. Also attached to this mail. Here I get: checking for Qt... libraries /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/lib, headers /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/qt-1.44/include

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Angus Leeming wrote: > When it came to configuring/compiling/linking lyx, again all went fairly > smoothly, but there are some bugs in the configure script which could be > removed. > I have just done : ./configure --with-frontend=kde --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt-1.45/ and

Re: Making lyx with the kde frontend

2000-09-21 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Ok, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. I've compiled and linked lyx with > the kde frontend. cool ! > Finally, the src/Makefile defines the qt and kdelibraries as: > -lqt -lkdecore > This results in lots of "can't find symbol" errors. On the