Le 25/05/13 17:54, Steve Litt a écrit :
Why is what you did above any better than ./configure; make; make
install from lyxhome itself? I didn't even know the separate build
directory could be done. Do you recommend the separate build directory
for compiling all programs where you need
to ./configure;make;make_install?

I would recommend building out of source tree any package. Package which do not support this are buggy IMO. In theory, you can set your source directory tree to read-only and still compile.

The advantage is that starting from scratch is trivial. This is even more important when compiling from a git check out, where you do not want old file to cause problems. In this case a "rm -rf *" (or the windows equivalent that I forgot (deltree?)), will start over cleanly.

JMarc

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