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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: LyX port, dependancies on compat/3
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Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> I've just installed print/lyx recently and started playing around with
> it after a reference in daemonnews. However, I found that it wouldn't
> run unless I installed the compat-3 libraries. I'm curious as to why it
> would need them:
> 
> 0:jonc-~,3:26pm> ldd /usr/local/bin/lyx
> /usr/local/bin/lyx:
>         libintl.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1 (0x283a3000)
>         libforms.so.0.88 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 (0x283a8000)
>         libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x28422000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x28430000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x28439000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x2844f000)
>         libstdc++.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3 (0x2852a000)
>         libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x28570000)
>         libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x2858b000)
>         libc.so.3 => /usr/lib/compat/libc.so.3 (0x28621000)
>         libXThrStub.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXThrStub.so.6 (0x286a2000)
> 

The cause is that LyX (a wonderful application otherwise) uses the xforms
toolkit, which is only available in binary form and, unfortunately, the
xforms library was built on FreeBSD 3.x. The LyX developers are making 
progress toward toolkit independence; I expect we'll see a Gtk-based
LyX before a year.

-- JMA
****** Jose M. Alcaide  //  jose@we.lc.ehu.es  //  jmas@FreeBSD.org ******
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