Thank you for your suggestion. It works actually. But:
- the file INSTALL says
If you use a rpm-based linux distribution, such as RedHat or
Mandrake, we recommend that you grab a version of xforms from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib as the rpm packages commonly
found are compiled against glibc 2.0 instead of 2.[12], and this
causes occasional crashes.
- actually you have to install libforms-devel-1.0-RC5.2.i386.rpm
which is somewhat surprising for a non expert.
Pierre
Markus Rosenstihl writes:
>
> > **** 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.
> >
> > ** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
> > is correctly installed on your system.
> >
> > However this happened after I installed Suse Linux 8.1 which comes
> > with the version 0.89-652 de xforms (installed on the system as I
> > checked).
>
> You need to install something like (lib)xforms0.89-dev ,they contain the headerfiles
>
> Good luck
> Markus
