On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see > attached.
May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? --- /home/m/INSTALL 2008-02-21 13:56:56.000000000 +0100 +++ /home/m/INSTALL.old 2008-02-21 13:58:20.000000000 +0100 @@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ configures LyX according to your system. When compiling for Qt, you may have to set --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation> - or the environment variable QTDIR. + if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 2) make compiles the program. 3) src/lyx - runs the program so you can test it before installing. + runs the program so you can check it out. 4) make install will install it. You can use "make install-strip" instead Rationale: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. 2. "check out" might be confusing (regarding the next section about SVN). "test" is IMO less ambiguous.