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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000 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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14 and that any new or changed statements about the activities
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15 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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17 BASIC INSTALLATION
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19 The simplest way to build Emacs is to use the `configure' shell script
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20 which attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent
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21 variables and features and find the directories where various system
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22 headers and libraries are kept. It then creates a `Makefile' in each
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23 subdirectory and a `config.h' file containing system-dependent
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24 definitions. Running the Make utility then builds the package for
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25 your system.
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27 Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which
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28 are supported by it. If this simplified procedure fails, or if you
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29 are using a platform such as MS-Windows where `configure' script
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30 doesn't work, you might need to use various non-default options, and
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31 maybe perform some of the steps manually. The more detailed
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32 description in the rest of the sections of this guide will help you do
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33 that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
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35 1. If you want to be able to input international characters which
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36 your keyboard doesn't support directly (i.e., you cannot type
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37 them at the shell prompt), download the leim-M.N.tar.gz
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38 distribution and unpack it into the same directory where you have
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39 unpacked the main Emacs distribution. See ADDITIONAL
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40 DISTRIBUTION FILES, below, for more about this.
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42 2. Make sure your system has at least 120 MB of free disk space.
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44 3a. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked Emacs and invoke the
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45 `configure' script:
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47 ./configure
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49 3b. Alternatively, create a separate directory, outside the source
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50 directory, where you want to build Emacs, and invoke `configure'
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51 from there:
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53 SOURCE-DIR/configure
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55 where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory.
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57 4. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
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58 about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
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59 looking for anything suspicious, such as wrong CPU and operating
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60 system names, wrong places for headers or libraries, missing
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61 libraries that you know are installed on your system, etc.
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63 If you find anything wrong, you will have to pass to `configure'
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64 explicit machine configuration name, and one or more options
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65 which tell it where to find various headers and libraries; refer
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66 to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
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68 If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
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69 Xpm, jpeg, etc., refer to the subsection "Image support
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72 If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
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73 you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
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75 5. If you need to run the `configure' script more than once (e.g.,
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76 with some non-default options), always clean the source
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79 make distclean
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82 6. Invoke the Make program:
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84 make
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86 7. If Make succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs' in
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87 the `src' directory. You can try this program, to make sure it
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88 works:
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90 src/emacs -q
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92 8. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
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93 opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
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94 files into their installation directories:
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96 make install
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98 You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
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99 you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
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102 make clean
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105 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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107 * leim-M.N.tar.gz
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109 The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international
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110 character scripts allows you to input characters in scripts which are
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111 not directly supported by your keyboard. It is distributed in a
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112 separate tar file because it amounts to a significant fraction of the
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113 size of the distribution. This tar file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz,
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114 with the same version number as Emacs, and it unpacks into the
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115 directory emacs-M.N/leim.
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118 have previously unpacked the main Emacs distribution. It fills in the
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119 contents of one subdirectory, which is present in the main Emacs
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120 distribution only in dummy form.
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122 Once you have unpacked the Leim tar file into the Emacs source tree,
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123 building and installing Emacs automatically installs the input method
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124 support as well. If you have built Emacs without unpacking Leim
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125 first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again.
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127 * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
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129 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
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130 order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
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131 character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
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132 it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If you do
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133 have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters don't look
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134 right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the intlfonts
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137 The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
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138 package for printing international characters. The file
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140 each character set.
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142 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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148 complements the Emacs Manual. (The Emacs Manual is accessible from
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149 within the editor by typing "C-h i", then selecting the "Emacs" item
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150 from the menu, or by clicking "Help" in the menu bar and selecting
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151 "Read Emacs Manual".) It is a good idea to install the Emacs Lisp
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152 Reference Manual after installing Emacs, to complete the on-line
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153 documentation of Emacs in Info.
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155 If you have installed Texinfo, you can install the Emacs Lisp
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156 Reference Manual this way (after unpacking the elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz
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159 cd elisp-manual-M.N
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160 ./configure --prefix=PREFIXDIR
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161 make install
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162
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163 Otherwise, you can install it manually. Just copy the files elisp and
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164 elisp-* from the elisp-manual-M.N directory to your site's info
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168 * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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170 * Image support libraries
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172 Emacs needs optional libraries to be able to display images (with the
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173 exception of PBM and XBM images whose support is built-in).
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175 On some systems, particularly on GNU/Linux, these libraries may
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176 already be present or available as additional packages. If not, you
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177 can download and build them from sources. None of them are vital for
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178 running Emacs; however, note that Emacs will not be able to use color
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179 icons in the toolbar if the XPM support is not available.
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184 . libXaw3d for fancy 3D-style
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185 scroll bars: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/
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186 . libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
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187 . libpng for PNG: ftp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
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188 . libz (for PNG): http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
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189 . libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
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190 . libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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191 . libungif for GIF:
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192 http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
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194 Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if the
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195 `configure' script finds them on your system, unless you supply the
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196 appropriate --without-LIB option. In some cases, older versions of
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197 these libraries won't work because some routines are missing, and
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198 configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the
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199 --without-LIB options to `configure'. See below for more details.
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204 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X,
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205 see below; search for MSDOG. For Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows NT,
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206 and Windows 2000, see the file nt/INSTALL. For the Mac, see the file
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210 a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
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211 least 2.5 MB and can reach 80 MB or more. If the swapping space is
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212 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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214 running the final dumped Emacs.
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216 Building Emacs requires about 95 MB of disk space (including the Emacs
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219 installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp libraries,
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220 miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If the building
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225 give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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226 getting around some possible installation problems. The file lists
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227 many different configurations, but only the part for your machine and
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228 operating system is relevant. (The list is arranged in alphabetical
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229 order by the vendor name.)
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234 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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235 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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237 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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240 in `./etc/MACHINES', with the system version number added at the end.
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243 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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245 try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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247 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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248 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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249 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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251 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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252 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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253 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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254 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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258 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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259 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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260 TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
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261 `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with
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262 shared libraries. A free implementation of Motif, called LessTif, is
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263 available ftom <http://www.lesstif.org>. You can get fancy 3D-style
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297 --disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on systems
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326 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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328 `./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile',
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330 on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY
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331 HAND', below.
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335 same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after
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338 to make reconfiguring faster, and a file `config.log' containing compiler
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339 output (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). You can give
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340 `configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the
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342 disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
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346 available when you know they are, look at the `config.log' file for
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347 the trace of the failed tests performed by `configure' to check
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348 whether these features are supported. Typically, some test fails
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349 because the compiler cannot find some function in the system
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350 libraries, or some macro-processor definition in the system headers.
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352 Some tests might fail because the compiler should look in special
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353 directories for some header files, or link against optional
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354 directories, or use special compilation options. You can force
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355 `configure' and the build process which follows it to do that by
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356 setting the variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, and CC before
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357 running `configure'. CPPFLAGS lists the options passed to the
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358 preprocessor, CFLAGS are compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used
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359 when linking, LIBS are libraries to link against, and CC is the
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360 command which invokes the compiler.
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363 variables:
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365 CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
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366 CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
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368 (this is all one long line). This tells `configure' to instruct the
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369 preprocessor to look in the `/foo/myinclude' directory for header
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372 switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a
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377 "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration
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378 yourself.
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386 where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
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387 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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389 To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
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394 If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails:
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395 it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.
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397 As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use
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398 a directory full of links rather than use the standard GNU
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399 facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above).
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403 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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412 Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
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419 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
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427 again. If you do this, you are on your own!
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431 something up in the system's password and user information database.
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443 building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
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444 named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
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445 copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
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446 directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
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448 Or you can "install" the executable and the other Emacs into their
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449 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
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450 are installed in the following directories:
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452 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
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453 `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',
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454 and `rcs-checkin'.
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456 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
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458 you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.27'. Since the
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459 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
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462 at the same time; in particular, you don't have to
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463 make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version.
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465 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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466 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
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468 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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469 files installed for all Emacs versions.
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471 When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
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472 in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in
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473 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
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474 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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476 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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478 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
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479 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
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481 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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482 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to
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483 run themselves.
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484 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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485 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument
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486 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
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487 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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489 these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
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490 operating system, and architecture in use, including
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491 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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492 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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493 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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494 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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495 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
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497 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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498 "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented
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499 using info files as well, so this directory stands
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500 apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
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502 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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505 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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506 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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509 information on this.
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511 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
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512 /usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs
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513 info files.
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516 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
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519 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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520 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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521 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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522 configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all
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523 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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524 unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic
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525 subdirectories of your site's lisp directory (usually
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526 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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530 MAKE VARIABLES
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532 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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533 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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534 command line. For example, if you type
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536 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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538 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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539 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
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542 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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543
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544 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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545 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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547 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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548 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
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553 file, and the `yow' database.
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554 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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556 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
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557 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
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558 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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559 unavailable while installing a new version.
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560
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561 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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562 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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563 We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
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565 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
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566 themselves.
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567 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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568 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
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569 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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570 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
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571 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
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572 of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
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573 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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574 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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575 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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576 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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577 installed on.
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578
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579 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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580 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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581
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582 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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583 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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584 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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585
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586 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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587 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
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588 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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589 values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be
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590 installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'.
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591
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592 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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593 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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594 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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595 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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596 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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597 by default.
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598
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599 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
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600 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
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601 By including
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602 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
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603 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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604 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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605 directories under that path.
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606
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607 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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608 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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609 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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611 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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612 GNU software; this variable is specific to Emacs.
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614 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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615 files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
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616 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
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617 see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
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620 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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621 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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622 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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623 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
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624 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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625 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
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626 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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627
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628 The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/paths.h,
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629 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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630 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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631 before you run `make'.
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632
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633 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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634 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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635 when running make in the subdirectories.
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636
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638 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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639
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640 Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the
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641 following steps.
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643 1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'.
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645 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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646 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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647 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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648 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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649 `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include
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650 the appropriate system and architecture description files.
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651
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652 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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653 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
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654 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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655 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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656 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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657
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658 3) Create src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile from the corresponding
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659 `Makefile.in' files. First copy `Makefile.in' to `Makefile.c',
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660 then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs,
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661 and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure'
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662 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
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664 4) Create `Makefile' files in various other directories
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665 from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard,
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666 just a matter of substitution.
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668 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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669 program. You need version 2.0 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild `configure'.
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671 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
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672
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673 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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674 the following steps.
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676 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
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677 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.in', changing
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679
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680 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
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681 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile'
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682 and `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others.
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684 3) Go to directory `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in
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685 the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
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686 `../lib-src'.
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687
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688 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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689 which has another name that contains a version number.
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690 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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692 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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693 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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694 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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695 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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696 file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs
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697 version.
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700 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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702 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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705 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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706 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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707
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708 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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709 - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl',
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e520e9f9a8d9 Formerly INSTALL.~31~
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710 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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711 and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
e520e9f9a8d9 Formerly INSTALL.~31~
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712 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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713 are intended to be run by users; they are handled below.
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0d3e8a3551b1 Formerly INSTALL.~32~
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714 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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716 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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717 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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718
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719 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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720 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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diff changeset
721 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
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722 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
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723 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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724 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
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725
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2a5d306408cb *** empty log message ***
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726 3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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727 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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728 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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729 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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730 of installing different versions.
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731
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732 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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733
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734 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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735 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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736 intended for users to run.
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737
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738 5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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739 appropriate man directories.
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740
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741 6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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742 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
e520e9f9a8d9 Formerly INSTALL.~31~
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743 the source on line for debugging.
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744
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745
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746 PROBLEMS
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747
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0413a3ff3b8d PROBLEMS is now in the etc directory.
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748 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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749 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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751
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752 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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753
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754 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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755 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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756 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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757 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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758 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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759 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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760 if any of them isn't found.
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761
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66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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762 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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763 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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764 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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765 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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766 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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767 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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768 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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769 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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770 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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771 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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772 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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773 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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parents: 15209
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774 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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775 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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776 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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11c175c0b7de Describe djtar.
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parents: 15016
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777
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66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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778 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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779 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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780 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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781 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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parents: 15209
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782 into problems during the build process.)
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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783
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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784 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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785 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
diff changeset
786 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
32557
cd84bd4a3411 Describe the new --with-FOO options for building with image support.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 26905
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787 support long file names on Windows 9X no matter what was the setting
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e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
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788 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
parents: 15444
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789 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
parents: 15444
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790 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
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parents: 15444
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791 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
parents: 15444
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792 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
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793 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
e3d77845180c Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
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parents: 15444
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794 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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11c175c0b7de Describe djtar.
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parents: 15016
diff changeset
795
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796 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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parents: 15209
diff changeset
797
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parents: 15209
diff changeset
798 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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3398b88cbd25 Update MSDOS needs list.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 12042
diff changeset
799
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66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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800 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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c08a8e2d0f27 MSDOS-related changes.
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parents: 19352
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801 your system.)
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parents: 12341
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802
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parents: 23353
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803 If you need to type international characters, you will need to unpack
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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804 the Leim distribution (see the description near the beginning of this
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
diff changeset
805 file). You unpack it from the same directory where you unpacked
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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806 Emacs. To unpack Leim with djtar, assuming the Leim distribution is
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
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807 called `leim.tgz', type this command:
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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808
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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809 djtar -x leim.tgz
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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810
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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811 If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
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812 distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
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parents: 23353
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813 Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
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parents: 23353
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814 unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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815 type this:
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parents: 23353
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816
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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817 djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
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parents: 23353
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818
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819 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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820 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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821 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
12339
3398b88cbd25 Update MSDOS needs list.
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parents: 12042
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822
3398b88cbd25 Update MSDOS needs list.
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parents: 12042
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823 config msdos
3398b88cbd25 Update MSDOS needs list.
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parents: 12042
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824 make install
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e9768f0d0653 Formerly INSTALL.~20~
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825
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parents: 33678
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826 Running "config msdos" checks for several programs that are required
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
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parents: 33678
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827 to configure and build Emacs; if one of those programs is not found,
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
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parents: 33678
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828 CONFIG.BAT stops and prints an error message. If you have DJGPP
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
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829 version 2.0 or 2.01, it will complain about a program called
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
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830 DJECHO.EXE. These old versions of DJGPP shipped that program under
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
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831 the name ECHO.EXE, so you can simply copy ECHO.EXE to DJECHO.EXE and
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
832 rerun CONFIG.BAT. If you have neither ECHO.EXE nor DJECHO.EXE, you
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
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833 should be able to find them in your djdevNNN.zip archive (where NNN is
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
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parents: 33678
diff changeset
834 the DJGPP version number).
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
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parents: 33678
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835
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836 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
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837 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
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838 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
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839 command:
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841 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
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842
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843 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
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844 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
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845 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
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846 default.
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847
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848 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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849 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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850 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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851 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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852 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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853 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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854 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
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855 installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
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856 intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
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857 The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
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858 subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
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parents: 23353
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859 find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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f5ba89f88cfd Talk about MSDOS type conflict workaround.
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860
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861 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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862 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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863 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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864 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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865 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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866 the location of the `info' directory).
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867
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868 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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869 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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870 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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871
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872 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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873 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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874 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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875 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
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876 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.