lyxstring compile fixes ; small stuff

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 30c7c6cb84d866d41e9088920b88a0c93d181d49..645f1108dfc0d9200f945e365a71355725fade15 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ developers to request a version for your system.  You can get it from
 In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 (or newer; 4.8 rumoured
 to work).
 
+You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
+ 
 libXpm can be found at:
            http://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/sunsite/X11/libs/!INDEX.html
            (or similar locations at other sunsites like sunsite.unc.edu)
@@ -297,7 +299,7 @@ notify us.
   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. The you should
+      - 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).
 
@@ -306,6 +308,10 @@ notify us.
        are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
        sources fixes that. 
 
+  o if you are using RedHat Linux 7.x, you must make sure you have the
+    latest updated gcc and related packages installed (at least -85),
+    or LyX will not compile or will be mis-compiled.
+ 
   o if you get an error message when compiling LyX that looks like this :
 
     ../../src/minibuffer.h:17: using directive `Object' introduced
@@ -314,17 +320,6 @@ notify us.
     then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
     installed.
 
-  o If you are using RedHat 7.0 and the option --with-frontend=kde, you
-    will need to configure LyX as follows :
-
-       export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-1.45
-       export CC="egcs -L/usr/lib"
-       export CXX="egcs++ -L/usr/lib"
-       ./configure --with-frontend=kde 
-
-    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 -std strict_ansi'