On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:39 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:28:08AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > | > | > configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend" > | > | And the config needs fixing to just work on Fedora 4. It can't find qt4 > | at all. > > Are you sure? It seemd Martin was able to get it to work. He had a > QT4DIR env variable causing problems though.
Actually they were partly between chair and keyboard. LyX configure uses the symbol name QT4DIR for something else than qt4 does internally. This leads to trouble if you define QT4DIR, configure, and then do make without first undefining QT4DIR again. In order to build the qt4 front-end, you should either define QT4DIR on the command line before configure, or use the --with-qt4-dir switch. I haven't checked John's patch, but I hope it makes this unnecessary. As for getting rid of --with-frontend, I am squarely against that. Sure, by all means make qt4 the default. It is not about keeping up the pretence of multiple front-ends; rather, it is about keeping an easy capability for front-end [version] switching without having to go cold turkey. Heck, even FC4 supports having qt3 and qt4 installed at the same time; why shouldn't LyX, even if it only is in support of rare transitory situations? IMHO, of course. It's like removing the reverse gear from your car -- you only use it now and then and drive at most 0.01% of your kilometre total on it, right? - Martin
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