[Pkg-lyx-devel] How to compile lyx under Debian

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 03:07:48PM +0100, Gregor Gorjanc wrote:

Hi Gregor,

> Can anyone provide me "instructions" how to compile lyx (preferably
> devel from SVN) under Debian. I am working on some simple additions and
> would like to test them. Unfortunately, I am not able to configure the
> compilation. I have a problem in specifiying QT paths in configure part.

Well if you want to feed us with patches it would help if you setup your
enviroment something like this:

mkdir -p pkg-lyx/build-area
mkdir pkg-lyx/tarballs
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-lyx/lyx/trunk

Now you've to install svn-buildpackage and place the upstream tarball you'd
like to work with in pkg-lyx/tarballs.
After that you can cd to pkg-lyx/trunk and build with
svn-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
You've to install the Build-Deps and fakeroot aswell.

At least that's how I work in most cases. Other developers might prefer
another workflow.

HTH
Sven
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