Use the python found by configure to build po files, part 2

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0eabaf160977984cda3107962c198aa2675d8483..1e003be75a22cde322a33e87880f15a590aa7f7d 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -9,14 +9,16 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install 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. 
-          You may have to set
-           --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
-     if the environment variable QTDIR is not set (for example,
-     '--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/'). Alternatively, you could
-     install pkgconfig (the name might vary depending on your 
-     distribution). 
+          In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config
+          installed (the name might vary depending on your 
+          distribution).
+
+       1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You
+          may have to set --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
+          (for example, "--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
+          environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
+          available.
+          
           See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
 
        2) make
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
 * automake >= 1.8
 * autoconf >= 2.59c
-* gettext >= 0.12
+* gettext >= 0.16.1
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
 files and proceed as stated below.
 
@@ -58,17 +60,6 @@ widely tested. 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
-latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get
-maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type:
-
-       ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig
-
-at the console. Most recent distributions are known to use fontconfig.
-
-If, however, your version of Qt does not use fontconfig, then TeX
-fonts should be added to the font path. 'man xset' is your friend.
-
 To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
 install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker
 libraries. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details.
@@ -88,7 +79,9 @@ The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
     as. Otherwise, LyX will not be able to run a number of tests. Note
     that users can run these tests manually with Tools>Reconfigure.
 
-  o Python 2.3 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
+  o Python 2.4 or newer must be installed. Python is used for many
+    simple tasks that are executed by external scripts, such as the
+    automatic configuration step and the import of older LyX documents
     with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
     opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
 
@@ -103,20 +96,21 @@ to create the Makefile by typing
 
   ./configure
 
-For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific
+For more complicated cases, LyX configure honors the following specific
 flags:
 
-  o --enable-build-type=[rel(ease), dev(elopment), pre(release)]
+  o --enable-build-type=[rel(ease), pre(release), dev(elopment), prof(iling), gprof]
     allows to tweak the compiled code. The following table describes
     the settings in terms of various options that are described later
 
-                      release   prerelease  development
-    optimization        -O2         -O2         -O
+                      release   prerelease  development profiling gprof
+    optimization        -O2         -O2         -O         -O2     -O2
     assertions                       X           X
     stdlib-debug                                 X
     concept-checks                   X           X
     warnings                         X           X
-    debug                            X           X
+    debug                            X           X           X       X
+    gprof                                                            X
 
     The default are as follows in terms of version number
     release: stable release (1.x.y)
@@ -211,7 +205,7 @@ this file.
 
 The following options allow to tweak more precisely the generated code:
 
-  o --enable-profiling instruments the code for use with the gprof
+  o --enable-gprof instruments the code for use with the gprof
     profiler. The result are only meaningful in conjunction with
     --enable-build-type=release.