add missing check for setenv: environment.cpp and POSIX standards prefer setenv

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 713c98ad9e179f53a832a5f0d09b2b5961970759..1b472854099115a417b1efac60893e38ef2f91a9 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ Quick compilation guide
 
 These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
 
 
 These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
 

-       0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
-           qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
+       0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages 
+          of the same version to compile LyX.

 
        1) ./configure
           configures LyX according to your system. 
 
        1) ./configure
           configures LyX according to your system. 

-          When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
-             --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
-           if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 
+          You may have to set
+           --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
+     if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 
+          See Note below if ./configure script is not present.

 
        2) make
           compiles the program.
 
        2) make
           compiles the program.


@@ -26,30 +27,32 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
            if you want a smaller binary.
 
 
            if you want a smaller binary.
 
 

-Note for Subversion checkouts
+Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts

 -----------------------------
 
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
 -----------------------------
 
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:

-* automake >= 1.5
-* autoconf >= 2.52
+* automake >= 1.8
+* autoconf >= 2.59c

 * gettext >= 0.12
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
 files and proceed as stated below.
 
 You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
 
 * gettext >= 0.12
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
 files and proceed as stated below.
 
 You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
 

+

 Requirements
 ------------
 
 First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
 Requirements
 ------------
 
 First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent

-means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 3.x).
+means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).

 
 LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
 This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
 library to be able to compile this version of LyX. 
 
 
 LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
 This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
 library to be able to compile this version of LyX. 
 

-LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2.x and Qt 4.3.x. The only special point
-to make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are
+LyX has been tested with all Qt versions since Qt 4.2.2. For compilation
+you need to compile against at least Qt 4.2.2. The only special point to
+make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are

 compiled with the same C++ compiler.
 
 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
 compiled with the same C++ compiler.
 
 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the


@@ -129,10 +132,11 @@ flags:
        --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
     If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
 
        --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
     If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
 

-  o --with-version-suffix[=VERSION] will install LyX as lyx-VERSION,
-    e.g. lyx-1.6.1. The LyX data directory will be something like 
-    <whatever>/lyx-1.6.1/. Additionally your user configuration files 
-    will be found in e.g. $HOME/.lyx-1.6.1
+  o --with-version-suffix[=SUFFIX] will install LyX as lyxSUFFIX. The
+    LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyxSUFFIX/.
+    Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
+    $HOME/.lyxSUFFIX. The default for SUFFIX is "-<currentversion>",
+    e.g. lyx-1.6.1.

 
     You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
     on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your
 
     You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
     on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your


@@ -246,10 +250,10 @@ The following options allow to tweak more precisely the generated code:
     want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available
     frontend for now.
 
     want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available
     frontend for now.
 

-  o --enable-monolithic-[boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
-    that enable monolithic build of the given part of the source code. This
-    should reduce the compilation time provided you have enough memory
-    (>500MB).
+  o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
+    that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
+    code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have
+    enough memory (>500MB).

 
 
 Compiling and installing LyX
 
 
 Compiling and installing LyX