X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=1e003be75a22cde322a33e87880f15a590aa7f7d;hb=a99960cc0491a40b77c48816c9a7bd46d49ac742;hp=13ce2cb15a35c7992f98e106737d8d8b06481534;hpb=eb18b4e835cba0acf44a40ed5281896cee65b442;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 13ce2cb15a..1e003be75a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,14 +9,16 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX: 0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX. - 1) ./configure - configures LyX according to your system. - You may have to set - --with-qt4-dir= - if the environment variable QTDIR is not set (for example, - '--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/'). Alternatively, you could - install pkgconfig (the name might vary depending on your - distribution). + In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config + installed (the name might vary depending on your + distribution). + + 1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You + may have to set --with-qt4-dir= + (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 @@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have: * automake >= 1.8 * autoconf >= 2.59c -* gettext >= 0.12 +* gettext >= 0.16.1 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration files and proceed as stated below. @@ -58,17 +60,6 @@ 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 LyX and the Qt libraries are compiled with the same C++ compiler. -Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the -latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get -maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type: - - ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig - -at the console. Most recent distributions are known to use fontconfig. - -If, however, your version of Qt does not use fontconfig, then TeX -fonts should be added to the font path. 'man xset' is your friend. - To build LyX with spell checking capabilities included you have to install at least one of the development packages of the spell checker libraries. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details. @@ -88,7 +79,9 @@ The two following programs should be available at configuration time: 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. @@ -103,20 +96,21 @@ to create the Makefile by typing ./configure -For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific +For more complicated cases, LyX configure honors the following specific flags: - o --enable-build-type=[rel(ease), dev(elopment), pre(release)] + o --enable-build-type=[rel(ease), pre(release), dev(elopment), prof(iling), gprof] allows to tweak the compiled code. The following table describes the settings in terms of various options that are described later - release prerelease development - optimization -O2 -O2 -O + release prerelease development profiling gprof + optimization -O2 -O2 -O -O2 -O2 assertions X X stdlib-debug X concept-checks X X warnings X X - debug X X + debug X X X X + gprof X The default are as follows in terms of version number release: stable release (1.x.y)