On my Red Hat Linux 9.0 system, lyx 1.4.0 manages to compile, but not link (see below). The missing /usr/lib/libltdl.la file doesn't exist on my system. Any ideas on how to fix this are very welcome.
Thanks, -Jernej Barbic Output of linker: make[3]: Entering directory `/nfs/hn00/barbic/software/lyx-1.4.0/src' /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -fno-exceptions -O2 -o lyx-qt main.o Bidi.o BufferView.o BufferView_pimpl.o Bullet.o BranchList.o Chktex.o CutAndPaste.o DepTable.o FloatList.o Floating.o FontIterator.o FuncStatus.o InsetList.o LColor.o LaTeX.o LaTeXFeatures.o LyXAction.o MenuBackend.o ParagraphParameters.o PrinterParams.o Spacing.o Thesaurus.o ToolbarBackend.o author.o boost.o box.o buffer.o buffer_funcs.o bufferlist.o bufferparams.o bufferview_funcs.o changes.o chset.o converter.o counters.o coordcache.o cursor.o cursor_slice.o debug.o dimension.o dociterator.o encoding.o errorlist.o exporter.o gettext.o factory.o format.o funcrequest.o graph.o importer.o intl.o insetiterator.o kbmap.o kbsequence.o language.o lastfiles.o lengthcommon.o lyx_cb.o lyx_main.o lyx_sty.o lyxfont.o lyxfind.o lyxfunc.o lyxgluelength.o lyxlayout.o lyxlength.o lyxlex.o lyxlex_pimpl.o lyxrc.o lyxrow.o lyxrow_funcs.o lyxserver.o lyxsocket.o lyxtextclass.o lyxtextclasslist.o lyxvc.o messages.o metricsinfo.o mover.o output.o outputparams.o output_docbook.o output_latex.o output_linuxdoc.o output_plaintext.o paragraph.o paragraph_funcs.o paragraph_pimpl.o pariterator.o pspell.o ispell.o SpellBase.o rowpainter.o sgml.o tabular.o tex-accent.o tex-strings.o texrow.o text.o text2.o text3.o toc.o trans.o trans_mgr.o undo.o vc-backend.o version.o vspace.o mathed/libmathed.la insets/libinsets.la frontends/libfrontends.la frontends/qt2/libqt2.la frontends/controllers/libcontrollers.la graphics/libgraphics.la support/libsupport.la ../boost/libs/regex/src/libboost_regex.la ../boost/libs/signals/src/libboost_signals.la ../boost/libs/filesystem/src/libboost_filesystem.la -lpspell -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lz libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libltdl.la' make[3]: *** [lyx-qt] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/nfs/hn00/barbic/software/lyx-1.4.0/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/nfs/hn00/barbic/software/lyx-1.4.0/src' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/nfs/hn00/barbic/software/lyx-1.4.0/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1