On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 01.12.06 WEST Uwe Stöhr wrote: > As requested by José, I installed Python 3.6.1 and tested today's master > with it. As result LyX cannot be started because the reconfiguration fails: > > 02:05:53.187: Checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... yes > 02:05:53.188: Traceback (most recent call last): > 02:05:53.189: File "D:/LyXGit/Master/lib/configure.py", line 1814, in > <module> > 02:05:53.192: windows_style_tex_paths = checkTeXPaths() > 02:05:53.193: File "D:/LyXGit/Master/lib/configure.py", line 206, in > checkTeXPaths > 02:05:53.194: inpname = shortPath(str(tmpfname, > encoding)).replace('\\', '/') > 02:05:53.196: TypeError: decoding str is not supported > 02:05:53.198: configuration will be reloaded... > D:\LyXGit\Master\src\support\Systemcall.cpp (295): Systemcall: 'python > -tt "D:/LyXGit/Master/lib/configure.py" > --binary-dir="D:/LyXGit/Master/compile-2015/bin/Release/"' finished with > exit code 1 > > regards Uwe
OK, I committed a change that should fix this problem. Looking into that function I find it strange that we have to change the path separators if it is windows... I would expect this to be unnecessary... I hope that this works. Regards, -- José Abílio