Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> With all the excitement of QT front-end, I decided to try it, but
> encountering few problems. Just FYI that I read the INSTALL, README and
> ANNOUNCE files. I am using RedHat 7.3 so all the existence binaries for RH
> 8.0 (lyx and xforms-1.0) probably won't work for me.
Hello, Rueben.
I just looked myself. It would appear that you're right ;-)
> Currently I have lyx.-1.2.1 with xform-0.88-9 that I am happy with, and
> use regularly, thus I don't really want to mess around with that for now.
>
> I want to try the newer version of lyx-1.2.3 with QT front-end. I know
> that it wont configure/compile with my current xforms. So I want to do
> either:
That'll be lyx 1.3.0 with Qt frontend. Previous versions had an xforms
frontend only. This new release has two frontends: you choose either Qt or
xforms. No need for the xforms library if using the Qt frontend. Ditto, no
need for the Qt library if using the xforms frontend.
> 1. Forget xforms, just use QT.
> But how? How do I tell it in the configure options to ignore the old xform
> version and just use QT? Last time I tried to just run configure, it
> failed. The 'make' is also failed with recursive error. Is this suppose to
> happen?
Of course not. Try
$ configure --with-frontend=qt
and then make. If you have problems, please tell us (on lyx-devel rather
than lyx-users) and we'll try and help. You're not using a very perculiar
system so things should work fine.
Once you do create a binary for RH7.3, could we get you to run
$ make rpmdist
to generate an rpm for other RH7 users?
> OR
>
> 2. Install xform-1.0. But as I said, I tried to not mess around with my
> current lyx+xforms things. So I tried to find xforms-1.0 source or
> something so that I can install it in separate directory, eg
> /usr/local/xforms-1.0 and then just tell Lyx's configure script to look
> for the xforms library in that location using --with-extra-lib and
> --with-extra-inc option. But no such thing exists, even in xform home
> page.
Sure it does, although their web site is woefully out of date.
http://world.std.com/~xforms/ftp/ftp.html
all the links point to the same xforms 1.0 sources.
> The only thing that I can find is the pre-build binary rpm
> libforms-1.0. Will this work for RH 7.3? and will this not conflict with
> my current xforms (installed with rpms xforms?
Yes, it should work fine. I'm no rpm guru, but understand that you can set
the install location. maybe someone more knowledgable can advise?
I recommend that you upgrade both your 'stable' lyx 1.2.1 system to 1.2.3 as
it contains many important bug fixes and your xforms library to 1.0 as it
too has far fewer bugs.
All the exciting new features (and any instabilities ;-) are to be found in
the newly released lyx 1.3.0.
> Thanks a lot for any help. Kudos for Lyx developers.
> Reuben D. Budiardja
HTH,
--
Angus
