--with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
- o --with-lyxname=STRING sets the name of the installed LyX binary and
- of the LyX library directory to STRING. This may be used to
- compile lyx as lyx-1.1 and avoid clashes with earlier/later
- versions. Default is "lyx".
-
-
+ o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.2.0
+ The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.2.0/.
+ Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
+ $HOME/.lyx-1.2.0
+
+ 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 own,
+ by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
+
There are also flags to control the internationalization support in
LyX:
the xforms or Xpm library, use the --with-extra-lib and --with-extra-inc
options of configure to specify where these libraries reside.
- o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux if
- you did a 'make mrproper' in the kernel directory, because this
- removes some symbolic links that are needed for compilation. A 'make
- symlinks' in linux kernel sources fixes that.
+ o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux
+ if the kernel headers are not available. Two cases are possible:
+
+ - you have not installed the kernel sources. Then you should
+ install them or at least the kernel-headers package (or
+ whatever it is called in your distribution).
+
+ - you have the sources, but you did a 'make mrproper' in the
+ kernel directory (this this removes some symbolic links that
+ are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
+ sources fixes that.
+
+ o if you get an error message when compiling LyX that looks like this :
+
+ ../../src/minibuffer.h:17: using directive `Object' introduced
+ ambiguous type `_ObjectRec *'
+
+ then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
+ installed.
- o If you have GNU gettext installed on your system (e.g. on linux),
- you will get tons of warnings like:
+ o If you are using RedHat 7.0 and the option --with-frontend=kde, you
+ will need to configure LyX as follows :
- bullet_forms.C:101: warning: passing `char *' to argument 1 of
- `__builtin_constant_p(int)' lacks a cast
+ export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-1.45
+ export CC="egcs -L/usr/lib"
+ export CXX="egcs++ -L/usr/lib"
+ ./configure --with-frontend=kde
- These are in harmless warnings caused by a bug in libintl.h, but
- will be solved if you use --with-included-gettext when configuring
- LyX.
+ If you your version of gcc-c++ is > 2.96-69, you may not need to do
+ this.
o It is possible to compile lyx with Tru64 Unix cxx compiler
version 6.2, provided one uses
- CXX=cxx
- CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -std strict_ansi -g -O'
+ CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi'
+ CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -g'
+ CC=cc
Note that this will not work when compiling directly from the cvs
repository, due to the tricks used by automake for dependencies. Ask
o On Tru64 Unix, you may have to compile with
--with-included-string to work around a Tru64 linker limitation
- (the STL string template creates names which may be too long).
+ (the STL string template creates names which may be too long). We
+ also had reports that it helps with gcc 2.95.2 on solaris 2.6.
o On Tru64 Unix with cxx, you may have a compilation error in
lyx_main.C if you have GNU gettext installed. This is due to a bug