X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=98b4b13868466dab8f15c0618e5928af7f7d6e6a;hb=0ba70d93285560703ea10d5045042502b814c27b;hp=90363d4a0981e066dde7ec24abb3cdaf28310eb4;hpb=55b2f5026244602b06de2948be377e9dbc405fef;p=lyx.git

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 90363d4a09..98b4b13868 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
 -----------------------------
 
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.5
+* automake >= 1.8
 * autoconf >= 2.59c
 * gettext >= 0.12
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
@@ -43,14 +43,15 @@ 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
+LyX has been tested with all Qt versions since Qt 4.2.2. 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
@@ -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 lyxVERSION,
-    e.g. lyx1.6.1. The LyX data directory will be something like
-    <whatever>/lyx1.6.1/. Additionally your user configuration files
-    will be found in e.g. $HOME/.lyx1.6.1
+  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
@@ -247,10 +249,10 @@ 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
-    should reduce the compilation time provided you have enough memory
-    (>500MB).
+  o --enable-monolithic-build[=boost,client,insets,mathed,core,tex2lyx,frontend-qt4]
+    that enables monolithic build of the given parts of the source
+    code. This should reduce the compilation time provided you have
+    enough memory (>500MB).
 
 
 Compiling and installing LyX