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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997 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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10 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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15 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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18 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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20 * leim-M.N.tar.gz
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22 The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international
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23 character scripts is distributed in a separate tar file because it
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24 amounts to a significant fraction of the size of the distribution.
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25 This tar file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz, with the same version number
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26 as Emacs, and it unpacks into the directory emacs-M.N/leim.
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33 Once you have unpacked the Leim tar file into the Emacs source tree,
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34 building and installing Emacs automatically installs the input method
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35 support as well. If you have built Emacs without unpacking Leim
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36 first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again.
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38 * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
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40 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
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41 order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
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42 character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
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43 it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If some
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44 characters don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font
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47 The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
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48 package for printing international characters. The file
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49 lisp/ps-mule.el defines the .bdf font files required for printing
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50 each character set.
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52 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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53 in the intlfonts/README file.
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55 * elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz
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57 This distribution contains the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual which
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58 complements the Emacs Lisp Manual. It is a good idea to install the
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59 Emacs Lisp Reference Manual after installing Emacs, to complete the
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60 on-line documentation of Emacs in Info.
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62 If you have installed Texinfo, you can install the Emacs Lisp
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65 cd elisp-manual-M.N
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66 ./configure --prefix=PREFIXDIR
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67 make install
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72 that file `dir' in this directory contains an entry like this:
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74 * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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77 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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79 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search
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80 for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.)
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82 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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84 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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85 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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91 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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92 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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93 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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94 then the installation procedure momentarily requires 70+35 Mb.
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96 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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100 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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103 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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104 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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106 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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108 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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109 in `./etc/MACHINES', with the system version number added at the end.
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111 You should try first omitting CONFIGURATION-NAME. This way,
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112 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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113 or if something goes wrong in building or installing Emacs this way,
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114 try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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116 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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117 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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118 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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120 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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121 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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122 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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123 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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124 Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also
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125 accept a list of directories, separated with colons.
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127 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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128 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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129 TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
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130 `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with
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131 shared libraries.
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133 The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
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134 compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify
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135 `--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search
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136 for GCC in your path, and use it if present.
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138 If you want the Emacs mail reader RMAIL to read mail from a POP
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139 server, you must specify `--with-pop'. This provides support for the
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140 POP3 protocol; older versions are not supported. For
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141 Kerberos-authenticated POP add `--with-kerberos', for Hesiod support
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286 When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
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288 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
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289 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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291 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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293 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
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294 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
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296 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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298 run themselves.
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299 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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300 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument
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301 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
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302 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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303 like `mips-dec-ultrix' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since
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304 these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
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306 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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307 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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308 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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309 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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310 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
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312 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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313 "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented
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315 apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
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317 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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320 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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321 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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322 for its Lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of
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323 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
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324 information on this.
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326 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
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327 /usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs
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328 info files.
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330 9) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox files,
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331 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
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332 to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe.
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334 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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335 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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336 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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337 configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all
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338 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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339 unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic
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340 subdirectories of your site's lisp directory (usually
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341 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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345 MAKE VARIABLES
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347 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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348 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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349 command line. For example, if you type
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351 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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353 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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354 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
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355 `/usr/local/bin'.
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357 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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359 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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360 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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362 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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363 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
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368 file, and the `yow' database.
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369 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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371 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
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372 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
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373 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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374 unavailable while installing a new version.
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376 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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377 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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381 themselves.
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382 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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383 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
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384 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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385 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
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387 of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
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388 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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389 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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390 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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391 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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392 installed on.
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394 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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395 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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397 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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398 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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399 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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401 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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402 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
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403 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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407 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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408 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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410 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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411 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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412 by default.
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418 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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419 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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420 directories under that path.
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422 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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424 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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429 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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435 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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436 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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437 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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439 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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503 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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505 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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509 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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510 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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518 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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520 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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525 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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527 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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531 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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532 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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534 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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535 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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538 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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540
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541 3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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543 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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544 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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545 of installing different versions.
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546
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547 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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548
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549 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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550 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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553 5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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561 PROBLEMS
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563 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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564 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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569 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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571 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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573 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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574 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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575 if any of them isn't found.
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579 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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580 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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581 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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582 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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584 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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585 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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586 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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587 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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588 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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589 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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590 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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591 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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592
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593 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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594 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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595 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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596 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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597 into problems during the build process.)
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598
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599 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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600 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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601 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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602 support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting
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603 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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604 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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605 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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606 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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607 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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608 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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609 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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610
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611 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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612
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613 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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614
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615 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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616 your system.)
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617
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618 If you need to type international characters, you will need to unpack
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619 the Leim distribution (see the description near the beginning of this
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620 file). You unpack it from the same directory where you unpacked
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621 Emacs. To unpack Leim with djtar, assuming the Leim distribution is
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622 called `leim.tgz', type this command:
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623
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624 djtar -x leim.tgz
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625
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626 If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
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627 distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
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628 Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
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629 unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
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630 type this:
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631
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632 djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
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633
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634 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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635 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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636 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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637
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638 config msdos
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639 make install
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640
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641 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
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642 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
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643 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
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644 command:
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645
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646 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
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647
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648 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
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649 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
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650 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
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651 default.
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652
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653 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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654 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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655 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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656 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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657 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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658 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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659 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
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660 installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
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661 intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
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662 The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
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663 subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
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664 find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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665
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666 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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667 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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668 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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669 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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670 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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671 the location of the `info' directory).
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672
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673 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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674 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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675 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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676
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677 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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678 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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679 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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680 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp version 2.01 have these bugs
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681 fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.