On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:48:44PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote:
> In the hope that this may save others some time, here are some notes
> on compiling LyX-1.2.0pre4 on Sparc-Solaris-8:
Thanks for these notes. I'll hopefully patch these into our INSTALL
soonish.
> - The distribution from ftp.devel.lyx.org includes pre-configured
> header files in the sigc++ subdirectory. If you do a `distclean',
> you will need gm4 to recreate those header files; the makefile in the
> sigc++ subdirectory does not work with Solaris m4.
Hum, this sounds like a plain bug. distclean should not be removing any
file that comes in the tarball. Lars ?
> - The Solaris ar seg-faults trying to build the insets library. You
> will need to use the ar from the GNU binutils for this subdirectory.
How would we solve this one ? It's a plain broken tool, no ?
Are you running the latest version of ar that Sun provide ?
> - Don't bother building LyX-1.2.0pre4 with an older xforms library.
> The new on-screen graphics rendering requires xforms-89.6 and convert
> from the ImageMagick tools.
actually for most cases, it's xforms-89.6 OR convert. It's fairly cleear
we need to add a little documentation on what's required when though.
> same time, I hope that building the production versions of this and
> future releases of LyX will not require quite so many proprietary
> Linux/GNU tools.
LyX builds fine on digital unix with the system tools, for example. The
simple fact is none of the developers use Solaris ! Testers such as
yourself help to keep us honest.
> If I recall correctly, Lyx-1.1.5 and before could be
> built with standard Unix utilities and a good C++ compiler. Restoring
> that portability might go a long way toward wider acceptance and use
> of LyX.
Will you be contributing Solaris builds of 1.2.0 proper for the LyX ftp
site ? I hope so !
regards
john
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