On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 09, 2011 06:22:19 AM Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
>> ..but if you're OK with building, this should be straightforward:
>> apt-get build-dep lyx
>>  ./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release
>> make
>> make install
>
> What does  "--enable-build-type=release" do for you? I've built LyX
> many times before but so far haven't used that.
>
I'm not an expert but I guess it relates to what Richard said:

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> The latter disables
> debug code and assertions.

Intuitively, you use this option when building and shipping releases,
as it at least disables debug symbols.
Liviu

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