Am 14.11.2010 um 12:44 schrieb Abdel Younes:

> On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
> 
>> Am 14.11.2010 um 09:16 schrieb Abdel Younes:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to use cmake on MacOS (10.6). I didn't on purpose read the Mac 
>>> INSTALL/README in order to judge how easy it is to compile LyX under MacOS. 
>>> So far, I am pleased. big kudoes to Peter/Kornel/Stefan/Bennett!
>> 
>> Fine. Thanks for the kudos.
> 
> Deserved. And sorry for misspelling your first name.

No problem.

>>> Here is what I did:
>>> 
>>> 1) install the latest Xcode 3.something, not so much for Xcode but because 
>>> it brings in gcc and MacOS development libraries.
>> 
>> One question here: before installing Xcode, did you have the svn command 
>> line tool, already? Or comes it with Xcode only?
>> Perhaps you have tested this and can remember?
> 
> Yes, it came with XCode. It was not there before.

For the average user that may be a problem when it comes to version control 
with LyX.
But that's out of the scope of LyX...

>>> 2) install Qt-4.7 from Nokia
>>> 3) install cmake from cmake web site
>> 
>> cmake is in macports too. maybe it's good enough and easier to install - in 
>> terms of key strokes...
>> 
>>> 4) install MacPorts
>>> 5) update MacPorts: sudo port -v selfupdate
>>> 6) install gmake:sudo port -v selfupdate
>> 
>> gmake makes a difference?
> 
> I don't know but XCode didn't bring in make

really? Hmm... I have it in /usr/bin.

> and MacPorts only offered GNU make ("sudo install gmake")
...
>>> Now I am going to install Latex (any recommendation here?)
>> 
>> MacTeX is the one I've installed here. I did not test any other.
> 
> I installed that now; seems to work. But there is no update program, is there?

Sorry, I don't know.

> I mean so that we are not forced to download the 1.6Gb package when you want 
> to upgrade...


Stephan

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