[Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: [PATCH] bug 2741: configure.py is not run when using batch mode

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Per" == Per Olofsson <pelle at debian.org> writes:

Per> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
>> Thanks for the explanations. Could you try to see whether the patch
>> I sent will fix the problem? I believe it should create a .lyx
>> directory in root home directory and work correctly from there.
>> 
>> Is it an acceptable solution?

Per> It's the correct fix, yes, but I don't think it helps us since
Per> it's apparently not allowed to write to home directories on
Per> Debian's buildds.

What about that:
mkdir /tmp/tempuserdir
lyx -userdir /tmp/tempuserdir -e latex foo.lyx
rm -rf /tmp/tempuserdir

Per> The best would be if configure.py was removed completely and
Per> everything was detected at runtime (or defaults used, or
Per> whatever).

Yes, this is something I would like to see for at least some of the
stuff. It is not clear however what the runtime penalty would be.

JMarc