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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:36:25 +0200 (IST)
From:      Yuri Gindin <yuri@aebeard.technion.ac.il>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LyX
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960221153427.24217A-100000@aebeard.technion.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <199602211206.NAA11505@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 ?
>    
> 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.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 	Sander.
> > 
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 
--Yuri.





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