What does tools=>reconfigure actually do?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Exactly what is the difference between performing Tools=>Reconfigure
within the LyX IDE environment, and performing
/usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py at the command prompt? The former
makes LyX aware of new environments I've put in the layout file, the
latter for some reason does not.

Are there some arguments I need to add to the configure.py command
line? Does it need to be done in a specific directory? Are there any
environment variables that effect configure.py?
configure.py --help didn't appear to tell me anything useful.

I really need a way to do a proper reconfigure that makes new
environments from the layout file available within LyX, and I need to
do it from a shellscript.

Thanks,

SteveT

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