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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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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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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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28 You should unpack leim-M.N.tar.gz into the same directory where you
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29 have previously unpacked the main Emacs distribution. It fills in the
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30 contents of one subdirectory, which is present in the main Emacs
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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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45 from the intlfonts distribution might look better.
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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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63 Reference Manual this way:
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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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69 Otherwise, you can install it manually. Just copy the files elisp and
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70 elisp-* from the elisp-manual-M.N directory to your site's info
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71 directory (see the description of `infodir', below), and make sure
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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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76 * Image support libraries
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78 Emacs needs optional libraries to be able to display images (with the
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79 exception of PBM images whose support is built-in). Here's the list
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80 of these optional libraries, and the URLs where they can be found:
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82 . libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
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83 . libpng for PNG: ftp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
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84 . Zlib (for PNG): http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
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85 . libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
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86 . libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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87 . libungif for GIF:
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88 http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
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90 Emacs needs to be configured with the appropriate --with-LIB option,
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91 to be built with these libraries. See below for more details.
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94 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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96 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search
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97 for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.)
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99 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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100 a program whose pure code is 900k bytes and whose data area is at
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101 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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102 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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103 loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when
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104 running the final dumped Emacs.
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106 Building Emacs requires about 70 Mb of disk space (including the Emacs
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107 sources). Once installed, Emacs occupies about 35 Mb in the file
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108 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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109 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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110 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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111 then the installation procedure momentarily requires 70+35 Mb.
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113 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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114 give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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115 getting around some possible installation problems.
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117 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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118 or in a separate directory.
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120 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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121 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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123 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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125 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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126 in `./etc/MACHINES', with the system version number added at the end.
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128 You should try first omitting CONFIGURATION-NAME. This way,
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129 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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130 or if something goes wrong in building or installing Emacs this way,
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131 try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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133 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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134 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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135 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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137 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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138 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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139 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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140 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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204 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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208 on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY
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220 disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
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223 distribution, but using `configure' is easier. See the section called
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224 "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration
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233 where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
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236 To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
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244 As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use
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245 a directory full of links rather than use the standard GNU
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246 facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above).
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250 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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296 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
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306 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
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312 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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313 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
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315 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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321 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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323 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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325 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
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326 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
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328 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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330 run themselves.
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331 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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333 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
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334 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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337 operating system, and architecture in use, including
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338 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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339 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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340 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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341 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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342 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
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344 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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345 "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented
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347 apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
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349 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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352 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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353 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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358 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
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360 info files.
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366 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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367 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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368 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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370 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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371 unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic
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373 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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377 MAKE VARIABLES
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379 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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380 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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381 command line. For example, if you type
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383 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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385 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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389 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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391 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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392 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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394 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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405 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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408 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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409 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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414 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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416 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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426 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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476 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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477 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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478 before you run `make'.
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492 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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493 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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494 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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499 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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501 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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502 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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503 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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509 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
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512 from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard,
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515 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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516 program. You need version 2.0 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild `configure'.
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518 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
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520 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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521 the following steps.
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523 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
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524 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.in', changing
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526
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527 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
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528 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile'
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529 and `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others.
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531 3) Go to directory `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in
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534
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535 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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537 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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539 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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540 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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541 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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542 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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544 version.
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547 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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548
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549 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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550 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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552 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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555 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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556 - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl',
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557 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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559 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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563 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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564 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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566 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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570 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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571 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
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575 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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576 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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577 of installing different versions.
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579 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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582 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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584
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585 5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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586 appropriate man directories.
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588 6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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589 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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590 the source on line for debugging.
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593 PROBLEMS
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594
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595 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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596 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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598
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599 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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600
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601 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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602 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
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603 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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604 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
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605 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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606 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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607 if any of them isn't found.
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608
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609 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
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610 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
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611 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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612 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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613 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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614 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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615 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
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616 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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617 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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618 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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619 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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620 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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621 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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622 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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623 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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624
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625 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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626 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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627 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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628 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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629 into problems during the build process.)
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630
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631 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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632 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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633 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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634 support long file names on Windows 9X no matter what was the setting
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635 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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636 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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637 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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638 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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639 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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640 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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641 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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642
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643 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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644
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645 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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646
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647 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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648 your system.)
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649
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650 If you need to type international characters, you will need to unpack
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651 the Leim distribution (see the description near the beginning of this
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652 file). You unpack it from the same directory where you unpacked
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653 Emacs. To unpack Leim with djtar, assuming the Leim distribution is
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654 called `leim.tgz', type this command:
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655
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656 djtar -x leim.tgz
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657
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658 If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
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659 distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
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660 Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
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661 unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
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662 type this:
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663
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664 djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
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665
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666 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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667 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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668 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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669
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670 config msdos
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671 make install
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672
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673 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
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674 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
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675 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
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676 command:
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677
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678 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
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679
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680 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
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681 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
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682 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
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683 default.
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684
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685 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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686 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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687 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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688 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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689 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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690 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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691 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
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692 installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
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693 intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
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694 The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
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695 subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
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696 find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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697
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698 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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699 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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700 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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701 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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702 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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703 the location of the `info' directory).
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704
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705 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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706 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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707 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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708
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709 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
310fd977a344 Update info about DJGPP.
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710 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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711 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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712 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
cd84bd4a3411 Describe the new --with-FOO options for building with image support.
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713 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.