Hi,
I had a similar problem to install LyX.
Looking at the LyX's configuration file
it seems that it searches xforms in a
place different from the usual installation
directory.
------ Extract of LYX configure.cmd -------------
/* Test if xforms and Xpm are available. */
rc=SysFileTree(X11ROOT'\XFree86\lib\forms.a',found,'F')
if found.0 = 0 then
say "Can't find forms.a. Please check that the xforms library is
correctly installed on your system."
rc=SysFileTree(X11ROOT'\XFree86\lib\Xpm.a',found,'F')
if found.0 = 0 then
say "Can't find Xpm.a. Please check that the Xpm library is correctly
installed on your system."
------------- End of Extract ---------------------
Finally my solution (I now it is not very clean, but it works)
was to copy libforms.a libforms.so and forms.h to the
directories searched by Lyx configure.
Now my system look like :
/usr/lib/libforms.a
/usr/local/xforms/FORMS/libforms.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a
/usr/lib/libforms.so (symbolic link to libforms.so.0.88)
/usr/lib/libforms.so.0.88
/usr/local/lib/libforms.so.0.88
/usr/local/xforms/FORMS/libforms.so.0.88
/usr/include/forms.h
/usr/local/xforms/FORMS/forms.h
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Of course there should be a better
solution, but it works for me.
Any way,
using LyX is so Wonderful
that I don't complaint
about this little problem.
Hope this helps.
Luis
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