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CompileDirNotes

A note about directory structure

This is a note about the directory structure that is used with the notes in CompileFromCVS, also see the module file such as or LyxModules?.

The source code is organized as follows:

/space/lyx-devel/
	BRANCH_1_3_X/
		<source code directories>
		build-qt/  - Used to build lyx with qt frontend
		build-xforms/  - Used to build lyx with xforms frontend

The BRANCH_1_3_X-version of the Qt-frontend would be installed here:

/pkg/mdhacks/pkg/lyx/
	BRANCH_1_3_X/
		qt/

Different versions of lyx are installed to this directory structures. Since our site expects that the configuration of a software should not in general depend on the OS, a special trick is used based on a link '@sys' that the filesystem (AFS) translates into i386_linux24 on linux and sun4x_57 on Solaris. Additionally, to avoid having duplicate lyx/share-directories, share/ and man/ are actually links, like this:

/pkg/mdhacks/pkg/lyx/
	devel/
		BRANCH_1_3_X/
			share/
			man/
			qt/
				share -> ../share
				man -> ../man
				bin -> .bin/@sys
				.bin/
					i386_linux24/
					sun4x_57/
			xforms/
				share -> ../share
				man -> ../man
				bin -> .bin/@sys
				.bin/
					i386_linux24/
					sun4x_57/

Creating installation directories

This tcsh-code can be used to create the installation directories:

mkdir -p $LYXPREFIX; mkdir -p $LYXPREFIX/.bin $LYXPREFIX/.bin/i386_linux24;
cd $LYXPREFIX; ln -s .bin/@sys bin; ln -s ../share; ln -s ../man;
cd $LYXPREFIX/..; mkdir -p man share