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Subject: Re: LyX
To: yuri@aebeard.technion.ac.il (Yuri Gindin)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:55:43 +0100 (MET)
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Has anyone got it working under FreeBSD?
> > > > I gave it a try but get lots of g++ errors
> > > > right at the beginning of compilation.
> > > > 
> > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I havent (actually even not that far) - it continues to say (in .configure) 
> > > that it can't find libforms... still, they are installed and at least 
> > > fdesign works ok.
> > 
> > I just got it compiled and running.
> > 
> > There are some rough edges:
> > 
> > 1) xforms is required but xforms installs a library
> >    /usr/lib/libforms.a and /usr/lib/libforms.so.0.7
> Why, it's libxforms.so.0.7 from the ports ?

OK, oversight of mine - I grabbed xfrom from somewhere else
(dutch site).

> >    
> > 2) I copied forms.h from the xforms/FORMS/ directory into
> >    the lyx build directory and added a -I./ to the CPPFLAGS in
> >    the Makefile
> > 
> > 3) I moved /usr/lib/libforms.so.3.0  libforms.so.3.0.old
> >    and libforms.a to libforms.a.old and then installed
> >    XFORM. 
> > 
> >    The latter has to be solved for FreeBSD since we have the
> >    (alphanumerical) libforms and the libxforms.
> > 
> >    I wonder why they didn't call it libxforms.

see above.

> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 	Sander.
> > > 
> > 
> > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> > 
> --Yuri.
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de