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
are compiled with the same C++ compiler.
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
-latex-ttf-fonts package (available on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/) to get maths
-symbols displayed properly. To find out, type:
+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. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known
to use fontconfig.
To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
from:
- http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
+ http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/
The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
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 --mandir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where the man pages will go.
[defaults to ${prefix}/man]
+ 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 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
here, you can prepend it with "`pwd`/".
then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
installed.
- o On solaris 2.6, you may have to compile with --with-included-string
- if compiling with gcc 2.95.2.
+ o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
+ work with Solaris make.
+
+ The Solaris ar seg-faults trying to build the insets library. You
+ will need to use the ar from the GNU binutils for this subdirectory.
o LyX can be compiled on Tru64 Unix with either GNU's gcc or the default
Compaq cxx compiler.