distribution).
1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You
- may have to set --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
- (for example, "--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
+ may have to set --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation>
+ (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the
environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not
available.
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If you have checked this out from Git, you need to have:
-* automake (supported versions are 1.8--1.14)
+* automake (supported versions are 1.8--1.15)
* autoconf (supported versions are 2.60--2.69)
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
files and proceed as stated above/below.
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 2.4 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.
+ o Python 2.7 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 (3.3 or later) support is work in progress.
Creating the Makefile
`configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the source
code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
-If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
+If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH'
variable, you have to compile LyX for one architecture at a time in
the source code directory. After you have installed LyX for one
architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another