Quick questions

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:42:04PM +0200, Lorenzo Bertini wrote:
> Hello list, just a couple of quick questions.
> I wanted to get a meaningful output out of valgrind so i needed to build a
> debug version:
> 
> 1. how do i tell autotools that i want this? I tried some LyX pages but they
> don't specifically say how. Is it the default behavior? In case, how do i
> get release output?

Use ./configure with --enable-build-type=dev 
(or if you want just debug symbols  --enable-debug)

> Also, on my computer i have debian 11 and LyX 2.3.6 as package. I have LyX
> 2.4 cloned from git on a folder:
> 
> 2. how do i download the debug symbols for 2.4? The package lyx-dbgsym is
> for 2.3.6.

Just compile 2.4 with the switches above

> 3. LyX 2.4 has overwritten something in the .lyx folder so LyX 2.3.6 doesn't
> work anymore; how do i keep them separated?

You can use configure with --with-version-suffix, that will add version suffix
to your .lyx configuration directory.

Pavel