X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=24c55ea10c23cdbfecdfdfd484a8771558628783;hb=6b5ce8a999028cefcf47a127ec5e8384f24d13dd;hp=142ee9766fa9d2db9e12dc790932f86d94c3f988;hpb=9bda5aa44d4e61a7b1357cb3b0d2981323fbcf8c;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 142ee9766f..24c55ea10c 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -43,15 +43,16 @@ Requirements ------------ First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent -means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 3.x). +means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x). LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL). This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this version of LyX. -LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2.x and Qt 4.3.x. 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. +LyX has been tested with Qt 4.2/3/4.x. 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 @@ -130,10 +131,11 @@ flags: --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used. - o --with-version-suffix[=VERSION] will install LyX as lyx-VERSION, - e.g. lyx-1.6.1. The LyX data directory will be something like - /lyx-1.6.1/. Additionally your user configuration files - will be found in e.g. $HOME/.lyx-1.6.1 + o --with-version-suffix[=SUFFIX] will install LyX as lyxSUFFIX. The + LyX data directory will be something like /lyxSUFFIX/. + Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g. + $HOME/.lyxSUFFIX. The default for SUFFIX is "-", + e.g. lyx-1.6.1. You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your @@ -247,8 +249,8 @@ The following options allow to tweak more precisely the generated code: want to use. The default value is qt4, which is the only available frontend for now. - o --enable-monolithic-[boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4] - that enable monolithic build of the given part of the source code. This + o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4] + that enable monolithic build of the given parts of the source code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have enough memory (>500MB).