These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
- qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
+ qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
1) ./configure
configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures
the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt
- version. You may have to set
+ version. You may have to set
--with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation> to succeed.
2) make
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 :
+ own, by doing something like :
./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,
o --enable-maintainer-mode enables some code that automatically
rebuilds the configure script, makefiles templates and other useful
- files when needed. This is off by default, to avoid surprises.
+ files when needed. This is off by default on releases, to avoid
+ surprises.
Note that the --with-extra-* commands are not really robust when it
comes to use of relative paths. If you really want to use a relative path