X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=a3d4db782ee5bda2b41a1e27a41feb7f221d3f6b;hb=40a54b25f78143f5f082e58474178ea403d8e957;hp=eaf95e4f32fe99fa58435e9e8473ce0c93e208b9;hpb=2e10f5a46bb5b7a59fcc24da0ce39b529c53dc7d;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index eaf95e4f32..a3d4db782e 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 @@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX: Note for CVS checkouts ---------------------- -If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have -automake, autoconf, and gettext installed. Then, -type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration +If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have: +* automake >= 1.5 +* autoconf >= 2.52 +* gettext >= 0.12 +Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration files and proceed as stated below. You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4). @@ -41,16 +43,17 @@ Requirements First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming. -Compilers that are known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and -later, and Digital C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your -experience with other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX -with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the -future. +Compilers that are known to compile LyX are gcc 2.95.x and later +and Digital C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your experience +with other compilers. -Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.3.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. +It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x. + +LyX 1.4.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. Users of gcc 2.95.x +will have to install the STLPort version of these libraries as the +ones that come with gcc 2.95.x are too broken for us to use. * xforms frontend @@ -84,9 +87,11 @@ 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-ttf-fonts package (available on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/) to get maths -symbols displayed properly. To find out, type: +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. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known to use fontconfig. @@ -110,7 +115,7 @@ much on it. To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available from: - http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/ + http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/ The two following programs should be available at configuration time: @@ -167,7 +172,7 @@ 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, @@ -223,6 +228,11 @@ 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-maintainer-mode enables some code that automatically + rebuilds the configure script, makefiles templates and other useful + 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 here, you can prepend it with "`pwd`/". @@ -360,8 +370,11 @@ notify us. then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have installed. - o On solaris 2.6, you may have to compile with --with-included-string - if compiling with gcc 2.95.2. + o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not + work with Solaris make. + + The Solaris ar seg-faults trying to build the insets library. You + will need to use the ar from the GNU binutils for this subdirectory. o LyX can be compiled on Tru64 Unix with either GNU's gcc or the default Compaq cxx compiler.