Stephen Harris wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Harris"
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To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>; "Paul A. Rubin"
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Prerelease of LyX 1.3.7_5 for Windows
So I think the configure file has changed between versions and
if the configure file implements cases of a path with spaces the
fundamental problem might be there. I'll compare the configuration
files for 1.3.6 and 1.3.7. As you may have also read sometimes
the presence of absence of a "/" at the end of a path is critical.
On a hunch, I tried changing both sh.exe and sed.exe to Win95
compatibility mode without any luck.
I compared the two configure files, lyx1.3.6 and Lyx1.3.7pre5
and the only difference in content I could tell was
\\path_prefix "C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\Python24;C:\\texmf\\miktex\\bin;
C:\\Perl\\bin;C:\\gs8.51\\gs8.51\\bin;C:\\ImageMagick"
EOF 1.3.6 stable, configure file
--------------------------------------------
The 1.3.7pre5 configure contains more entries and this is the same as
what gets written to LyX 1.3.7pre5 Path prefix after I run 'sh.exe
configure' later.
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\\path_prefix "C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\Python24;
C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\Python24;C:\\texmf\\miktex\\bin;
C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\Python24;C:\\texmf\\miktex\\bin;
C:\\Perl\\bin;C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\Python24;
C:\\texmf\\miktex\\bin;C:\\Perl\\bin;C:\\gs8.51\\gs8.51\\bin;
C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin;C:\\Python24;C:\\texmf\\miktex\\bin;C:\\Perl\\bin;
C:\\gs8.51\\gs8.51\\bin;C:\\ImageMagick"
EOF 1.3.7pre5, configure file
Something in Angus's installer apparently writes the configure script
during installation (rather than just unpacking a prefab configure
script). Whatever is causing the looping in the path prefix is
apparently in the part of the installer that emits the configure script.
Time permitting, maybe I'll check the CVS (if I can figure out how :-)
to see if the installer itself is in there.
Paul
