On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Joachim Osnabryg <o...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > Am 25.02.2010, 13:27 Uhr, schrieb BH <bewih...@gmail.com>: >> >> Follow the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX. (It's somewhat more >> involved than the above.) > > Thank you Wilhelm, good tip (perhaps I overlooked it last time). > > But I have 2 additional questions: > > 1. > INSTALL.MacOSX says: > (after the preconditions and) after having run: > ./autogen.sh > > the following for ./configure: > > ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --with-version-suffix=-1.6 > --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --with-included-gettext > --enable-optimization=-O2 --disable-stdlib-debug > > Meanwhile Guenter Milde wrote in this thread on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:52:56 > +0100 > URL: news://<hm5a8o$rk...@dough.gmane.org> > in reply to 2010-02-24, Rob Oakes, who had written: >> >> Lyx2 -sysdir "/path/to/sys/directory" -userdir "/path/to/user/directory" > > the following: > >> However, this is done automatically, if you configure with e.g. >> ./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release >> >> now, the sysdir is /usr/local/share/lyx-svn and the userdir is ~/.lyx-svn. >> Günter > > which me seems more simple and very practical, if this will go well on > MacOSX, too. > > => Will this go on MacOSX?
Mac is not Linux and so requires different procedures. Follow the INSTALL.MacOSX instructions here. > > 2. > Of course, in each case followed then by, > > make > make install-strip > > i. e. "$ sudo make install-strip" instead of "$ sudo make install", as Julio > Rojas wrote. > > => Which one is correct on MacOSX? On Linux, you're installing into system directories, not user directories, and so you need to install as root; that's not true on Mac, so you don't need the "sudo" part. If you're installing a pre-release version of LyX (as you would be with the devel tree) and are able to send in backtraces with bug reports, then use "make install" instead of "make install-strip". You should also be aware that the devel tree doesn't work as well on Mac as on other platforms. I have not yet used it for production work and wouldn't recommend doing so right now. But please feel free to test it and submit bug reports. BH
