Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > You mean on linux distribution with proper autotools support.
No. You only need autotools if you work from svn. If you want to compile from tar.gz you need no auto stuff at all. This is IMO a requirement, end users should not need obscure build tools. > That's not > the case for all Unix/Linux and that's definitely not the case for > Windows. Plus, I am not sure of that but I think that with Cmake it's even > simpler because you just need "make" to compile lyx. That means you don't need cmake if you want to compile from the tar.gz package? That would be great. Your previous post did not look like this. Georg