hammer@slackware:~$ cd Desktop/lyx-1.4.3 hammer@slackware:~/Desktop/lyx-1.4.3$ su Password: root@slackware:/home/hammer/Desktop/lyx-1.4.3# ./configure configuring LyX version 1.4.3 checking for version suffix... checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking what packaging should be used... posix checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/ginstall -c checking for gawk... (cached) gawk checking for kpsewhich... : checking for gm4... no checking for gnum4... no checking for m4... m4 checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 1.5.2... python checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 2.4 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... none required checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for AIX... no checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend" root@slackware:/home/hammer/Desktop/lyx-1.4.3# make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. root@slackware:/home/hammer/Desktop/lyx-1.4.3# ./configure configuring LyX version 1.4.3 checking for version suffix... checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking what packaging should be used... posix checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/ginstall -c checking for gawk... (cached) gawk checking for kpsewhich... : checking for gm4... no checking for gnum4... no checking for m4... m4 checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 1.5.2... python checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 2.4 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... none required checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for AIX... no checking what frontend should be used for the GUI... none configure: error: "Please select a frontend using --with-frontend" root@slackware:/home/hammer/Desktop/lyx-1.4.3#