On Jun 17, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Patrick De Visschere wrote:
Hi,
Since I temporarely have to switch to and older Mac (with OSX
10.2.8) I wanted to find out what version of lyx runs on which OS X
version and the information on the wiki pages seems ambiguous.
According to the /Mac pages lyx13x requires 10.2 and lyx14 requires
10.3.9 (I guess this is right)
The /Lyx/Download page however mentions also 10.2 for lyx14x (this
is probably wrong)
I can only run lyx136 and even not lyx137 or lyx14x; in the latter
case there is a message that /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib is missing.
This library is installed by fink under /sw/lib but even after
copying this library to /usr/lib lyx refuses to run.
It would be nice if someone could explain what should run on OSX
10.2.9
I'm frankly not sure, since I haven't had 10.2 around to test on. But
I believe the binaries for LyX-1.4 (and the forthcoming -1.5) will
not work on 10.2. So I believe you'll have to use LyX-1.3. (I don't
remember any reason why 1.3.7 wouldn't work on 10.2.) Your experience
with LyX-1.4.x is what I'd expect: you need the precise version of
the libiconv.2.dylib LyX was compiled with for it to work -- and
that's the version that comes with 10.3.
If you want to compile your own version, I believe LyX-1.4 will work
on 10.2.
Bennett
