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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994 Free software Foundation, Inc.
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4 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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5 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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6 copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
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7 and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
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8 for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
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10 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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11 of this document, or of portions of it,
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12 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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13 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them,
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15 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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18 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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20 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search
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21 for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.)
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23 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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25 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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26 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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32 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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37 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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55 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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66 shared libraries.
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89 should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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119 HAND', below.
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132 The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
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133 distribution, but using `configure' is supposed to be simpler. See
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135 configuration yourself.
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279 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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305 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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312 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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322 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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325 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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329 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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335 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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350 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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352 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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354 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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366 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp'.
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370 `locallisppath' and `lispdir'. It should be a colon-separated
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374 `etcdir' indicates where Emacs should install and expect the rest of
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379 `lockdir' indicates the directory where Emacs keeps track of its
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389 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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390 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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391 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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393 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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395 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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397 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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398 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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402 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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410 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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411 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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419 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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420 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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437 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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438 the following steps.
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456 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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458 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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467 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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469 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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487 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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494 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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496 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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499 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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505 6) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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506 appropriate man directories.
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509 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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510 the source on line for debugging.
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515 See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various
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516 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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519 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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520
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521 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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522 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
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523 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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524 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
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525 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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526 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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527 if any of them isn't found.
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529 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
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530 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
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531 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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532 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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533 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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534 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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535 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
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536 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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537 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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538 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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539 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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540 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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541 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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542 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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543 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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544
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545 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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546 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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547 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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548 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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549 into problems during the build process.)
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550
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551 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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552 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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553 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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554 support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting
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555 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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556 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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557 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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558 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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559 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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560 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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561 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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562
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563 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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564
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565 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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567 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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568 your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names
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569 collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS,
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570 or if you have set LFN=n on Windows 95, djtar will ask you to supply
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571 alternate names for these files; you can just press `Enter' when this
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572 happens (which makes djtar skip these files) because they aren't
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573 required for MS-DOS.
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575 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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576 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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577 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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579 config msdos
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580 make install
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582 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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583 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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584 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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585 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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586 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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587 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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588 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. The bin
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589 subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory
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590 includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful
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591 if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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593 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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594 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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595 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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596 environment variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc
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597 and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory.
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599 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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600 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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601 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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603 The current version of djgpp 2.0 (as of August 1996) has two bugs that
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604 affect Emacs. We've included corrected versions of two files from
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605 djgpp in the msdos subdirectory: is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work
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606 around the bugs, compile these files and link them into temacs. The
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607 next version of djgpp should have these bugs fixed.