(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
if you want a smaller binary.
-Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
+Note for Git checkouts
-----------------------------
-If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
+If you have checked this out from Git, you need to have:
* automake >= 1.8
-* autoconf >= 2.59c
+* autoconf >= 2.59d
* gettext >= 0.16.1
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
-files and proceed as stated below.
+files and proceed as stated above/below.
You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
Requirements
------------
-First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
-means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
+First of all, you will need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means
+that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
-LyX makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
+LyX makes great use of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
library to be able to compile this version of LyX.
-For full LyX usability we suggest to use at least Qt 4.6 which has been
+For full LyX usability we suggest to use at least Qt 4.8 which has been
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
+Qt 4.5.0. 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.
To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to
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.
debug X X X X
gprof X
- The default are as follows in terms of version number
+ The defaults are as follows in terms of version number
release: stable release (1.x.y)
prerelease: version number contains alpha, beta, rc or pre.
- development: version number contains svn.
+ development: version number contains dev.
o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
find extra libraries (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE
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 :
- ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestsvn
+ ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestdev
Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,
--program-suffix and the others will not affect the shared LyX
LyX:
o --disable-nls suppresses all internationalization support,
- yielding a somewhat smaller code.
+ yielding somewhat smaller code.
o --with-included-gettext forces the use of the included GNU gettext
library, although you might have another one installed.
care.
o You can also set the environment variable LINGUAS to a list of
- language in case you do not want to install all the translation
+ languages in case you do not want to install all the translation
files. For example, if you are only interested in German and
Finnish, you can type (with sh or bash)
export LINGUAS='de fi'
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
+comes to using relative paths. If you really want to use a relative path
here, you can prepend it with "`pwd`/".
If you do not like the default compile flags used (-g -O2 on gcc), you can
o CXXFLAGS='-O2' (sh, bash)
o setenv CXXFLAGS '-O2' (csh, tcsh)
-Similarly, if you want to force the use of some specific compiler, you can
+Similarly, if you want to force the use of a specific compiler, you can
give a value to the CXX variable.
If you encounter problems, please read the section 'Problems' at the end of
this file.
-The following options allow to tweak more precisely the generated code:
+The following options allow you to tweak the generated code more precisely:
o --enable-gprof instruments the code for use with the gprof
- profiler. The result are only meaningful in conjunction with
+ profiler. The results are only meaningful in conjunction with
--enable-build-type=release.
o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a
- higher level as the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3.
+ higher level than the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3.
o --disable-optimization - you can use this to disable compiler
optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some
If configure fails for some strange reason
------------------------------------------
-Even when configure fails, it creates a Makefile. You always can check
+Even when configure fails, it creates a Makefile. You can always check
the contents of this file, modify it and run 'make'.
Compiling For Multiple Architectures
--------
This section provides several hints that have been submitted by LyX
-team member or users to help compiling on some particular
-architectures. If you find that some of this hints are wrong, please
+team members or users to help compiling on some particular
+architectures. If you find that some of these hints are wrong, please
notify us.
o On SUN Sparc Solaris, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
to either ~/.fonts.conf (for a per-user change) or /etc/fonts/local.conf
(for a global system change). The stanza should be added between the
<fontconfig> and </fontconfig> tags. If neither ~/.fonts.conf nor
- /etc/fonts/local.conf exist, you can create them with the following
+ /etc/fonts/local.conf exists, you can create them with the following
content:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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