I am trying to install XForms in order to compile LyX. I am working in a linux system but I don't have root acces, so I want to install it in my home directory, so this is what I tried:
I downloaded the file bxforms-088.tgz from the linux/i386 directory. I unpacked and untared it. Now I suppose that one has to type something like make install to get the files copied to the appropriate place. Since xforms thinks that one has root access by default I modified the mkconfig.h file, and created the libraries that it seems it needs (e.g. include and man5). I then installed it almost successfully, I think (there was only a slight warning about skew time). I then tried to configure the installation of LyX by typing: ./configure --with-extra-lib=~/xpm-3.4k-linux --with-extra-prefix=~/ --prefix=~/ The xpm directory seems to be no problem for the configuration, but there is still something wrong with xforms, since I get the error message: ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library is correctly installed on your system. (It seems that it found forms.h at least) There should be somebody out there who has experience in this (installing xforms in a local user directory), and who could help me to do this properly. For example, I think that I should create something like a share directory in my home directory, and let xforms copy its files there. Can anybody help me on this? Thanks, Brian F. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
