>>>>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:15 -0500, "Paul A. Rubin" said:
Eyal Rozenberg wrote: >> I have cygwin installed, and I've tried to install Windows LyX >> 1.3.7, with all binary paths pointing to the relevant cygwin files >> (except for GScript which is installed separately). However, the >> installation gives me some error message about not being able to >> run a configuration script, then whenever I start LyX I get: >> >> LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions Check that the file >> textclass.lst is installed correctly >> >> in a dialog, and the console says >> >> LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. >> >> I can't find that file anywhere; what to do? >> >> Eyal Rozenberg >> >> >>>>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:15 -0500, "Paul A. Rubin" said: Paul> Apologies if this shows up twice -- I answered this morning, but Paul> apparently the dog ate my message. Paul> It's possible that the versions of some of the utility programs Paul> installed by Cygwin are incompatible with the LyX configuration Paul> script. I have not updated my Cygwin installation in a long Paul> time, but I know that I had that problem a year or so ago. In Paul> particular, LyX installation is sensitive to the version of sed* Paul> (earlier versions of sed choke on carriage return/linefeed Paul> combinations used to terminate lines in the configuration Paul> files). Paul> One possible solution is to install MinSYS. You may need to Paul> make sure that the MinSYS bin directory is ahead of the Cygwin Paul> bin directory on the Windows command path. Another possibility, Paul> if you have not upgraded Cygwin recently, is to do so now. Paul> HTH, Paul> /Paul ---------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Harris (SH) had previously written: "In the past the sh.exe which comes with Cygwin has not been the same version which works that is provided by Minsys to install LyX." SH now writes: Thanks for the correction to sed* the documentation is confusing: ----------------------------------------------------------------- From the Emacs&Auctex(11.82) downloaded configure.bat rem For reference, here is a list of which builds of gmake are known to rem work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence rem of sh.exe. rem rem sh exists no sh rem cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): okay[1] fails[2] rem MSVC compiled gmake 3.77: okay okay rem MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay okay rem MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1: okay okay rem mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay okay rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: okay[1] fails[2] rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay fails[2] rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1: couldn't build make[3] rem rem [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must rem mount emacs source with text!=binary. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SH: Cygwin used to come with a LyX install files, but no longer. I finally got Supercite working, regards, Stephen
