cmake install missing help documentation

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Fri Oct 25 14:27:27 UTC 2019


That great it works for you now, Vincent. Do you have any specific
suggestions for how to improve the information in INSTALL.cmake? Would
you be interested in proposing a patch that clarifies things? It would
be great to make that file as accessible as possible.

Thanks,

Scott


On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 10:54:11PM -0400, Vincent Lucarelli wrote:
> Thanks!  That did it.
> 
> I didn’t understand from INSTALL.cmake what the purpose of these variables were.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Vince
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Oct 23, 2019, at 4:02 AM, Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Am Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:17:28 -0400
> > schrieb Vincent Lucarelli <vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com>:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I tried:
> >> 
> >> git checkout 2.3.3
> >> mkdir build
> >> cd build
> >> cmake -GNinga -DLYX_EXTERNAL_HUNSPELL=ON
> >> -DLYX_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/install ..
> > 
> > I propose to use also -DLYX_NLS=ON -DLYX_INSTALL=ON
> > LYX_NLS=ON should create translations,
> > LYX_INSTALL=ON should create everything needed for installation.
> > 
> >> ninja-build
> >> ninja-build install
> >> 
> >> This fails with
> >> CMake Error at po/cmake_install.cmake:45 (file):
> >>  file INSTALL cannot find "/tmp/lyx/build/po/ar.gmo"
> >> 
> >> So I tried
> >> 
> >> ninja-build translations
> >> ninja-build install
> >> 
> >> This seems to work and lyx2.3 runs, but /tmp/install does not contain
> >> UserGuide or any of the other help documentation.
> >> 
> >> What am I missing?
> >> 
> >> Thanks -  Vince
> >> 
> > 
> >    Kornel
> > 
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