LyX 2.4.0dev Testing Release

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Sun Oct 25 18:59:55 UTC 2020


Am Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:43:44 -0400
schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:

> On 10/25/20 1:57 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 06:53:34PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:  
> >> Am Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:48:15 -0400
> >> schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org>:
> >>  
> >>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 04:55:52PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:  
> >>>> Am Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:42:26 -0400
> >>>> schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:
> >>>>      
> >>>>>> Committed at 2dbf3515.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is there more?  
> >>>>> Should I try rebuilding?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there a cmake way to generate the tarballs? I use 'make dist' from
> >>>>> autotools.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Speaking of which, 'make lyxdist' used to work but doesn't now.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Riki  
> >>>> If you do
> >>>>   $ make help
> >>>> in the build dir, you should get all possible targets.
> >>>> Among them
> >>>>   $ make package_source
> >>>> should create LyX-2.4.tar.gz and LyX-2.4.tar.xz  
> >>> Not sure if necessary, but in "cmake" call, you might need to set
> >>>
> >>>    -DLYX_CPACK=ON -DCPACK_SOURCE_TGZ:BOOL=ON
> >>>
> >>> Note that you can also create a .rpm. Not sure what your setup is, but
> >>> Kornel and I find it useful to use .debs (easy to install and remove).
> >>> To have "make package" create a .rpm, in "cmake" call do the following:
> >>>
> >>>    -DLYX_CPACK=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=ON
> >>>
> >>> Scott  
> >> Yes, and the target is 'package', e.g.
> >>    $ make package  
> > Good point. To be clear (to Riki), "make package" will make CPack's
> > binary packages, which in the above example is the RPM. But for the
> > source tar.gz file, you still do "make package_source" as Kornel
> > mentioned earlier.  
> 
> OK, thanks. I'll try this at some point.
> 
> For my own use, I tend just to 'make install' to /usr/local/ and 
> over-write it as necessary. Is there reason to do it otherwise?
> 
> Riki
> 
> 

Yes, it is. The next 'make install' does not remove old installed files.
For instance you move a file into different directory, or rename a file or delete in the
source.
Installing with the help of package manager is consistent.

	Kornel
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