X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=6a4bd0fbbbfe95fa6e5b05748a10cd9b129c8cdc;hb=a8a909f25ae01bd794c658bd6cef333af92387df;hp=8ecbd562fc49683905a91322f17acaf077bfc586;hpb=44cd0fc9a1687cc63911c7f98d978594458e7813;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 8ecbd562fc..6a4bd0fbbb 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. + qt and qt-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX. 1) ./configure configures LyX to your system. By default, LyX configures the xforms frontend, use --with-frontend=qt to build a Qt - version. You may have to set + version. You may have to set --with-qt-dir= to succeed. 2) make @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ flags: 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 - own, by doing something like : + own, by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix, @@ -225,9 +225,10 @@ Moreover, the following generic configure flags may be useful: o --mandir=DIRECTORY gives the directory where the man pages will go. [defaults to ${prefix}/man] - o --enable-mainainer-mode enables some code that automatically + o --enable-maintainer-mode enables some code that automatically rebuilds the configure script, makefiles templates and other useful - files when needed. This is off by default, to avoid surprises. + files when needed. This is off by default on releases, to avoid + surprises. Note that the --with-extra-* commands are not really robust when it comes to use of relative paths. If you really want to use a relative path