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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: configure.py problem
From:       "Leslie P. Polzer" <sky () viridian-project ! de>
Date:       2012-06-14 15:43:27
Message-ID: e7bbc0d804df45000e8268d6e3706cc4.squirrel () mail ! stardawn ! org
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Richard Heck wrote:
> On 06/14/2012 03:42 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
>> I'm using ArchLinux with LyX 2.0.3.
>>
>> Some months ago I started experiencing problems with LyX.
>>
>> It wouldn't find my CLS files, though kpsewhich would
>> pick them up just fine.
>>
>> A handful of people around the net seemed to have similar
>> problems, but no solution that worked for me was presented.
>>
>> So yesterday I took it upon myself to hunt down the cause
>> of this. Here's what I found:
>>
>> configure.py (processLayoutFile) has this line:
>>
>>    avai = {'LaTeX':'false', 'DocBook':bool_docbook}[classtype]
>>
>> Apparently it always sets the second data item to false for
>> LaTeX CLS files.
>>
> configure.py doesn't actually check for the presence of the
> CLS files. It's just reading layout files. The check for LaTeX
> files is done elsewhere. Presumably that script isn't running
> properly, but I'm not an expert on that part of the process.

Thanks, that makes more sense; I will dig further.

  Leslie

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