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CompileFromSVN

Notes on compiling LyX from Subversion

1.  Log for compiling lyx-devel on RHEL4

What I did in order to be able to compile LyX from SVN.

The machine is RHEL release 4 (update 5).

• Checking out LyX from SVN to /nobackup/chr/lyx-devel/

  cd /nobackup/chr
  svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel
  

cd /nobackup/chr
svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel

• Reading the file INSTALL
  • Checking that I have a useable version of automake
    automake --version
    I have 1.9.2 (>= 1.5), ok.
  • Checking that I have a useable version of autoconf
    autoconf --version
    I have 2.59 (>= 2.52), ok
  • Checking that I have a useable version of gettext
    gettext --version
    I have 0.14.1 (>= 0.12), ok
  Side note: I have gcc version 3.4.6
  • Running ./autogen.sh in .../lyx-devel/
  • Running ./configure in .../lyx-devel/
    ./configure --prefix=/nobackup/chr
    where I intend to install it under /nobackup/chr/ rather than /usr/local/.

Sheesh, I get the error: qt 4 library not found. See separate section on installing QT 4 below.

• Running ./configure once more, after installing Qt 4.
  ./configure --prefix=/nobackup/chr --with-qt4-dir=/nobackup/chr
• Making 'LyX'
  make

Wait a long time... started at 15:27. Make ended before 16:07.

2.  Installing QT4

• Read http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/x11
• Retrieved Qt 4.3.1 using
  wget 'http://ftp.silug.org/mirrors/ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.1.tar.gz'
• Extracted it
  tar xzf qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.1.tar.gz
• Configure

  cd qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.1
  ./configure -prefix /nobackup/chr
  

  and accept the license.

3.  Log for compiling on Ubuntu (6?)

• svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel
• Checking for 'automake' etc, someone recommended doing

  sudo apt-get install libtool

  but that didn't help. Trying

  sudo apt-get install automake

Sigh... it gives me a too recent version of automake. Giving up on this.

4.  Log for building LyX on Ubuntu (7.04)

This is with a almost fresh installation of Ubuntu 7.04. The instructions below should hopefully work, but were not verified on a completely fresh system. (These instructions worked for me on Ubuntu 8.04 also).

• Install packages that will be needed

sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev gettext
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev  # This may already have been installed
sudo apt-get install automake   # This may already have been installed

• mkdir -p ~/lyx; cd ~/lyx; 
  svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel
  cd ~/lyx/lyx-devel; ./autogen.sh
  mkdir -p ~/lyx/build; cd ~/lyx/build; ../lyx-devel/configure
  make
  

4.1  Build times

revision 20759

• make

real    22m24.971s
user    20m27.441s
sys     1m35.558s

• make -j 2

real    12m4.663s
user    20m36.377s
sys     1m32.110s

• make -j 4

real    11m47.978s
user    20m48.434s
sys     1m32.278s

5.  Log for building LyX on Ubuntu (8.10)

This is with a almost fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10.

• Install packages that will be needed

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libqt4-dev gettext automake

• mkdir -p ~/lyx; cd ~/lyx; 
  svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel
  cd ~/lyx/lyx-devel; ./autogen.sh
  mkdir -p ~/lyx/build; cd ~/lyx/build; ../lyx-devel/configure
  make
  

6.  Installing local LaTeX classes and styles in Ubuntu

My freshly compiled LyX doesn't find the classes it should find.

Here's a partial work around for locally installed classes:

• Place the class files etc in ~/mylatex
• Set the variable TEXINPUTS, e.g.
  export TEXINPUTS=~/mylatex/:
• Start LyX and do a recompile. This time LyX should have found the classes in ~/mylatex

7.  Categories

Category: Development, Compile LyX