X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=45224fe4faf81f13b8f2fff091cc9974086dccf1;hb=0334876ca61a7889578d5b705fc175d03c298904;hp=713c98ad9e179f53a832a5f0d09b2b5961970759;hpb=ff711ed4bc93e28d7bc471bfcf2d5064250a6760;p=lyx.git

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 713c98ad9e..45224fe4fa 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
 	   When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
              --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
            if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 
+	   See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
 
 	2) make
 	   compiles the program.
@@ -26,12 +27,12 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
            if you want a smaller binary.
 
 
-Note for Subversion checkouts
+Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
 -----------------------------
 
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
 * automake >= 1.5
-* autoconf >= 2.52
+* autoconf >= 2.59c
 * gettext >= 0.12
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
 files and proceed as stated below.
@@ -48,9 +49,10 @@ 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
@@ -129,10 +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 
-    <whatever>/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 <whatever>/lyxSUFFIX/.
+    Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
+    $HOME/.lyxSUFFIX. The default for SUFFIX is "-<currentversion>",
+    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