[Pkg-lyx-devel] building 2.1.2 failed on Debian/unstable

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:11:34PM +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2014 11:09:47 Sven Hoexter wrote:

Hey,

> > You rock! Thanks, it was indeed a missing build-depedency on bc.
> 
> That requirement is there for all the 2.1.x releases. Until I found that it was bc that missing it was a huge headache. :-)

I can imagine, I guess I had a rather strange look on my face once
I encountered the issue itself and once I read the solution.


> we have a comment in the .spec file that says:
> 
> # weird but necessary to compare the supported qt version
> # see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/137498

Indeed worth reading. Thanks for the pointer.
It's interesting especially in the light of a recent discussion in
Debian which of the "traditional" Unix tools should no longer have
priority standard and thus be installed as a default.
bc was also one of the tools discussed. On the other hand there is
Linus citing LyX as an example for the Unix way.

Cheers,
Sven