Runtime error (macOS)

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net
Sat Aug 13 07:37:56 UTC 2022


Am 13.08.2022 um 09:26 schrieb Christoph Schmitz <chr.schmitz at web.de>:
> 
> Since a few days I get the following error message when starting a newly compiled version of LyX:
> 
> Unable to determine the system directory having searched
> /Users/chris/Desktop/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/
> Use the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable
> LYX_DIR_24x to the Lyx system directory containing the file "chkconfig.Itx'.
> 
> The contents of the folder ./LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ is completely different when compared with the contents of the last working version. If you manually copy the contents to the newly compiled version, the program starts up again.
> 
> I have the same problem on two different computers running macOS: an Intel machine and an M1 machine.

I’m using autotools to create the app and a disk image and don’t have this problem.

Are you able to bisect with git?

Stephan



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