X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=eef62e211f1a2d96e661af0e5a68251f68254970;hb=7e652bb51ca09730c4a8680800f82ac1379c6969;hp=075d5e4a3d714b4692e04214045340eb0e3b7f4f;hpb=643060e2a1d2deb268f10fb8f047bfc9a910521c;p=lyx.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 075d5e4a3d..eef62e211f 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ instead of 2.[12], and this causes occasional crashes. In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer. +Note that the Qt and Gnome frontends are still under development, and +as a result are only useful if you want to help out with testing and +development. + If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a patch), you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed, due to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can find the latest version @@ -140,6 +144,10 @@ flags: the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your own, by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs + Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,--program-suffix + and the others will not affect the shared LyX directory etc. so it + is recommended that you use --with-version-suffix (or --prefix) instead. + o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a higher level as the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3. @@ -327,56 +335,8 @@ notify us. then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have installed. - o It is possible to compile lyx with Tru64 Unix cxx compiler - version 6.2, provided one uses - CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi' - CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -g' - CC=cc - - Note that this will not work when compiling directly from the cvs - repository, due to the tricks used by automake for dependencies. Ask - Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr for a workaround. - - Or rather, it may well work if you are using automake 1.5 and autoconf 2.5 - or greater, but you'll have to patch automake's depcomp first. (Depcomp - is a little shell script to automagically work out file dependencies - and it's broken for automake 1.5 and Tru64 :-(). The patch is to be found - in config/depcomp.diff. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o On Tru64 Unix, you may have to compile with - --with-included-string to work around a Tru64 linker limitation - (the STL string template creates names which may be too long). We - also had reports that it helps with gcc 2.95.2 on solaris 2.6. - - Using Tru64 Unix 4.0e, the std::string is fine. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o On Tru64 Unix with cxx, you may have a compilation error in - lyx_main.C if you have GNU gettext installed. This is due to a bug - in gettext. To solve this, you can either (1) configure with - --with-included-gettext or (2) add -D__STDC__ to cxx flags. - - o On Tru64 Unix 4.0e, the STL library routine std::count is broken - (/usr/include/cxx/algorithm.cc, line 289 on my machine). - It calculates "n" but does not return it! The fix is to add "return n;" to - the end of the (4-line long) routine. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o On Tru64 Unix 4.0e, compilation of support/lyxsum.C dies horribly. The - work-around is to use the old version, 1.18, of this routine. Ask - Angus Leeming for details. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o Some systems lack functions that LyX needs. To fix this, configure - tries to link against the -liberty library, if it is available. - If you experience problems with missing symbols at link time, you - could try to install libiberty.a, which comes with several GNU - packages (in particular libg++). In any case, please report your - problems to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org. - - The option --without-liberty disable the detection of -liberty. It - is meant for debugging purpose only. + o On solaris 2.6, you may have to compile with --with-included-string + if compiling with gcc 2.95.2. o According to David Sundqvist , some changes are needed to compile with aCC on HP-UX 10.20. These are the @@ -387,6 +347,55 @@ notify us. # which currently break. LIBS = -lforms -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -lX11 -lCsup # must link with Csup - LDFLAGS = -L/opt/aCC/lib # perhaps not needed. - - + LDFLAGS = -L/opt/aCC/lib # perhaps not needed. + + o LyX can be compiled on Tru64 Unix with either GNU's gcc or the default + Compaq cxx compiler. + + There are no Alpha-specific problems with gcc. + + The following notes all refer to compilation with the Compaq cxx compiler. + + LyX cannot be compiled on Tru64 Unix 4.0d or 4.0e with the default cxx + compiler. You should upgrade to at least cxx V6.2, to be found at + ftp::/ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/C-CXX/tru64/cxx/CXX622V40.tar. Users + running Tru64 Unix 4.0f and greater should have no real problems compiling + LyX. + + cxx V6.2 will compile LyX out of the box. + cxx V6.3-020 is also known to work, although there is a bug in + /usr/include/cxx/deque that will break compilation in FormPreferences.C. + Compaq are investigating, but a patch that works /now/ is: + +--- /usr/include/cxx/deque_safe Mon Mar 4 21:09:50 2002 ++++ /usr/include/cxx/deque Mon Mar 4 21:09:00 2002 +@@ -570,9 +570,11 @@ + { + if (size() >= x.size()) + erase(copy(x.begin(), x.end(), begin()), end()); +- else +- copy(x.begin() + size(), x.end(), +- inserter(*this,copy(x.begin(),x.begin()+size(),begin()))); ++ else { ++ const_iterator mid = x.begin() + difference_type(size()); ++ copy(x.begin(), mid, begin()); ++ insert(end(), mid, x.end()); ++ } + } + return *this; + } + + At the time of writing, cxx V6.5-026 is the latest cxx compiler. It is + /not/ recommended. Not only do the bugs in the system header files still + exist, but the compiler itself appears to be both buggy and extremely + bloated (trebles the size of the stripped LyX binary). + + In order to compile LyX with the cxx compiler, you should run configure + with the following flags: + CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi' + CXXFLAGS='-nopure_cname -nocleanup -ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -O2' + CC='cc -std1' + The -nopure_cname flag is needed for compilers V6.3 and above because + LyX makes use of functions like popen, pclose that are defined in the + c version of but are not formally part of any c/c++ standard. + They are not, therefore, included in the header file.