Various fixes in insettext/tabular to make update work selective.

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e33439b9392b0993ef1337ed43af0d059a5132fb..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
@@ -34,8 +35,8 @@ You will need to have both an Xforms library and Xpm library to compile
 LyX.  It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these 
 libraries, and their associated header files.
 
-As of LyX version 1.1.1, you will need to have Xforms library and header
-version 0.81, 0.86, or 0.88.  Version 0.88 is a stable release and the
+As of LyX version 1.1.5, you will need to have Xforms library and header
+version 0.88 or 0.89.  Version 0.88 is a stable release and the
 recommended version.  On some systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared 
 library versions of the Xforms library, which require an installation step 
 to configure the system.
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ Xforms is available (free) only in binary format, source code is not
 available.  If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
 developers to request a version for your system.  You can get it from
 
-    http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
-    ftp://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/
+    http://world.std.com/~xforms/
+    ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/
     ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/
     ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/xforms
     ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS/
@@ -58,11 +59,11 @@ libXpm can be found at:
            (or similar locations at other sunsites like sunsite.unc.edu)
 
 You will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means that the
-compilers knows a bit about the C++ standard. Compilers that are known
-to compile LyX are gcc 2.8.1 and 2.95.x, the various versions of egcs
-and Digital C++ version 6.1. Please tell us your experience with other
-compilers. It is probably _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc
-2.7.x, but this may change in the future. 
+compilers are close to C++ standard conforming. Compilers that are
+known to compile LyX are gcc 2.8.1 and 2.95.x, the various versions of
+egcs and Digital C++ version 6.1. Please tell us your experience with
+other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x,
+and this is not likely to change in the future.
 
 Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.1.x makes great use of C++
 Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ desperate cases:
     this flag is on for development versions only.
 
   o --enable-assertions that make the compilier generater run-time
-    code which checks that some variables have sane values.  Opposite
+    code which checks that some variables have sane values. Opposite
     is --disable-assertions.  By default, this flag is on for
     development versions only. 
 
@@ -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.