Small fixes to compile with compaq cxx

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 969b86571a208aa9f5d5b3ee5aa3ac507548009c..f2d6eb2cb7c825e4e07abbfeeadd830728a3230c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
           runs the program so you can check it out.
 
        4) make install
-          will install it.
+          will install it. You can use "make install-strip" instead
+           if you want a smaller binary. 
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -218,6 +219,12 @@ Once you've got the Makefile created, you just have to type:
 
 All should be OK ;)
 
+Since the binaries with debug information tend to be huge (although
+this does not affect the run-time memory footprint), you maight want
+to strip the lyx binary. In this case replace "make install" with
+
+  make install-strip
+
 BTW: in the images subdirectory there is also a small icon "lyx.xpm",
 that can be used to display lyx-documents in filemanagers.