On "Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:39:23 +0100", Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>thanks for the reply. i dont think i understand how to do what you suggest, 
>i'm not that experienced with this sort of thing to say the least. would it be
>possible to make a package from your installation?

Not as such, though the current package could be updated to do this
automatically.

>i wanted to try out lyx to see what it was like. its ages since i last used 
>latex and this looked interesting. unfortunately it requires xforms to run.

I just tried to build lyx on NetBSD/sparc-1.5 yesterday, and the
system ran out of memory (64 Mbyte box) in the middle of the build.
There appears to be something a little off in pkgsrc-current.

>well... thanks anyway,

I'll see about putting together a patch for the existing package (and
submitting it), but it may be a week or two before I have time.
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