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,