I have been very pleased using Lyx on RedHat 7.3 on my work PC over the last
6 months. I want to install it on my home computer which is Mac OS X 10.1.
I followed the directions listed on Herbert Voss's tips page and associated
links. I have installed fink, XFree86, Orobor, Tetex and Xforms. Since the
fink version of Lyx is still 1.6, I decided to compile Lyx 1.2.1 directly
from the source. When I run configure I get the following result:
Configuration
Host type: powerpc-apple-darwin5.3
Special build flags: included-libsigc
C Compiler: cc
C Compiler flags: -g -O2
C++ Compiler: c++ (2.95.2)
C++ Compiler flags: -O -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
Linker flags:
Frontend: xforms
libXpm version: 4.11
libforms version: 0.89.8
LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx
**** The following problems have been detected by configure.
**** Please check the messages below before running 'make'.
**** (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file)
** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library
is correctly installed on your system.
I believe that xforms is installed properly, and I have tried reinstalling it
several times. I have also tried the options on configure to pass it the
directories for xforms. The only xforms files I seem to have are "forms.h"
and "libforms.a" Does anyone know what files it is looking for?
PS I have also tried the various environment variables suggested by Ronald
FLorence and Jeff Whittaker, but I get the same error.
Thanks,
Steve Buonopane
Baltimore MD USA
