On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:40:40AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:17:42PM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> >> Your reworking has completely broken LyX on cygwin for me.
> >>
> >> I can no longer run any external programs.
> >>
> >> Even running Tools->Reconfigure comes back immediately with no effect.
> >>
> >> Help!
> >
> > To verify,
> >
> > I went back to 01/16/2005 and everything that is now botched up works
> > correctly (except for the "Unable to determine the path [...]").
> >
> > I can probably spend a bit of time isolating exactly which
> > change broke lyx on Cygwin, after I have finished some work for
> > my employer and finished an assignment for school.
>
> Good. Thanks. This all smacks of something going wrong with the reading of
> the PATH variable (and maybe the writing to is). getEnvPath and setEnvPath
> in support/filetools.C. At a guess, what happens if you remove the
> cygwin_path_fix?
I don't know, I haven't tried it, but as of the 1/16/05 repository, the
cygwin_path_fix patch was in and I have no problems.
It's the changes that were made afterwards that make LyX unusable (no
external programs seem to run, including the Tools->Reconfigure script).
---Kayvan
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