On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:50:52AM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Le 27/08/2018 à 09:46, Jean-Pierre Chrétien a écrit : > > Dear developers > > > > I wrongly ran 'sudo make uninstall' in my lyx-2.2.4 distro build dir, so I > > ran > > 'sudo make install-strip' to reinstall. I was surprised to see files > > being recompiled as if this did not heppen earlier. > > > > Does the earlier 'sudo make install-strip' (done when I installed 2.2.4 > > after 2.3.0 was released) remove all the .o and the .a files ? > > > > Sorry for the noise, I must have run 'make clean' after installation of the > 2.2.4 executable, as the job was done and lyx-2.2.4 not prone to > reinstallation.
I forget, what is your distro? I will give the following advice before Kornel does (which he helped me realize the benefit of). When you compile LyX, it might be helpful for you to create a .deb and then install that with dpkg. Then your package manager handles things. If you are interested, we can give very simple instructions. Scott
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