Hello,
I'm a Lyx user who experienced the autosave crashing issue on Snow
Leopard. Based on what I've read in this mailing list and in other
user reports, I've built the 1.6.4.1 source available here
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz
manually disabling HAVE_FORK, and then I've used this custom build
without experiencing any crash. I'm sharing the binary in case
somebody finds it useful:
http://www.bluepixysw.com/Lyx.zip
I'm not involved in any Lyx development and I've never built Lyx
before, so this is absolutely not intended as the best or official way
to solve the problem: if this binary works for you, consider it a
quick-and-dirty workaround until an official new version is released.
Also, if you experience any issues with this binary please share them
here.
The binary was built on Leopard (10.5), but it seems to work fine on
SL. I can provide detailed building instructions if someone is
interested.
The binary is Intel only (as this is just intended as a Snow Leopard
fix).
Of course, it is released under the usual Lyx license:
http://www.lyx.org/License
Ludovico Rossi
