X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=0014c4ecae3c48b73e9111878427b2e8072f2b5b;hb=e54ae72e5fac6f750c3f7972c74bb42b57f3a049;hp=5448901a1bfc1ae6d49f77850530fa8871b64bd6;hpb=52650ef229e3ea8e23f58999720498f25d3815cc;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 5448901a1b..0014c4ecae 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ Quick compilation guide 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. + qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX. - 1) ./configure --with-frontend=qt4 + 1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. When compiling for Qt, you may have to set - --with-qt-dir= + --with-qt4-dir= if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 2) make @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Note for Subversion checkouts ----------------------------- If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have: -* automake >= 1.9 +* automake >= 1.5 * autoconf >= 2.52 * gettext >= 0.12 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration @@ -107,9 +107,6 @@ to create the Makefile by typing For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific flags: - o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you - want to use. There is no default value: this switch is required. - o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will find extra libraries (qt4) it needs. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places). You can specify several @@ -171,8 +168,8 @@ Moreover, the following generic configure flags may be useful: installation. [defaults to /usr/local] o --datadir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where all extra LyX - files (lyxrc example, documentation, templates and layouts - definitions) will be installed. + files (documentation, templates and layout definitions) + will be installed. [defaults to ${prefix}/share/lyx${program_suffix}] o --bindir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where the lyx binary @@ -233,6 +230,10 @@ cases: latex cannot be found. If you find that you have to use this flag, please report it as a bug. + o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you + want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available + frontend for now. + Compiling and installing LyX ----------------------------