Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Enrico Forestieri on 10/8/2006 3:54 PM: > > As I explained in an another mail, in this case the culprit is qt3 > and not boost. I suspected boost because of the following comment > in boost/libs/filesystem/src/path_posix_windows.cpp: > >

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Larry Hall writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emit

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Larry Hall writes: > > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > David Arnstein writes: > >> I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my > >> home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This > >> is a network directory, obviously. > >> > >> When lyx starts up, it e

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +, Eric Blake wrote: > > > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It > > > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//." > > > > This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, > > so any path

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Eric Blake
> > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It > > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//." > > This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, > so any path of the form //xxx/yyy is normalized to /xxx/yyy. > I understand that /

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
David Arnstein writes: > > I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my > home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This > is a network directory, obviously. > > When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint > QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/dar

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-05 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, David Arnstein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? > > Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and > do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread David Arnstein
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to get it to work correctly. In this case, P: is the dr

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Arnstein wrote: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt