On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:24:17PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > >> If a Qt3 frontend was provided, I will be using LyX 1.5 on solaris, > >> as that is not the case, I will be still sticking with 1.4 for the > >> time being. With that attitude you may scare away users of alternative > >> systems, which often can't even have the third last released version. > > I fully agree with this. > In addition on Solaris 8 I get spurious messages about the lyx > temporary whenever I cut, paste, and close > (see my previous thread about this). > I am perfectly frustrated to see the striking new > features of lyx-1.5 blurred by the bad implementation of qt4 on Solaris. > > The last 4.3.0 version seems unable to register font changes. > Before trying to compile LyX with it, I'd like to be sure that > configure with > env LD_OPTIONS=-R/usr/local/lib ./configure -release -qt-gif \ > -platform solaris-g++ -prefix /usr/local/qt-4.3.0 > is OK. > > Any hint ?
I don't think that you will get any help from this list. The queer fish that is not using the mainstream platforms, or that is not using the latest versions of the various libraries, better change his system to conform to the imposed conditions. Someone will explain him that this is how open source works, so he could try to get commit privileges in order to try to adjust things for his platform, but unless he has a very thick skin, I do not recommend it. -- Enrico
