Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:27:40 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LyX port, dependancies on compat/3 Message-ID: <3AD1808C.E5934BB3@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20010409153231.A28985@itouchnz.itouch>
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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 ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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