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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994 Free software Foundation, Inc.
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4 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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5 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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6 copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
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7 and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
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8 for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
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10 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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11 of this document, or of portions of it,
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12 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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13 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them,
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15 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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18 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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19 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below;
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22 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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23 a program whose pure code is 900k bytes and whose data area is at
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24 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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25 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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29 Building Emacs requires about 50 Mb of disk space (including the Emacs
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31 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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32 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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33 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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36 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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37 give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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40 3) In the top directory of the Emacs distribution, run the program
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41 `configure' as follows:
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45 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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46 in `./etc/MACHINES'. If omitted, `configure' will try to guess your
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47 system type; if it cannot, you must find the appropriate configuration
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48 name in `./etc/MACHINES' and specify it explicitly.
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50 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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51 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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54 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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55 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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57 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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61 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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62 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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63 TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
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64 `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with
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65 shared libraries.
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67 The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
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68 compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify
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69 `--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search
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72 You can build Emacs for several different machine types from a single
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73 source directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
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75 build directories for the different configuration types, and in each
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76 one, run the Emacs `configure' script. `configure' looks for the
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77 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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79 The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
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80 should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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81 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
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82 (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
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84 (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.27').
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86 PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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90 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
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91 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
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92 files, like executables and utility programs. If specified,
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93 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and
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98 For example, the command
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100 ./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11
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102 configures Emacs to build for a DECstation running Ultrix, with
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105 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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106 itself. It just creates the files that influence those things:
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107 `./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile',
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109 on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY
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110 HAND', below.
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112 When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and
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113 creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the
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119 `configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the
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121 disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
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123 The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
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124 distribution, but using `configure' is supposed to be simpler. See
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125 the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the
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126 configuration yourself.
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128 4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right
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130 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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134 (setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")
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136 is how you would override the default value of the variable
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137 news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews").
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139 Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
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140 variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the
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311 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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336 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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357 list of directories; Emacs checks them in the order they
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360 `etcdir' indicates where Emacs should install and expect the rest of
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362 file, and yow database. Its default value, based on `datadir'
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369 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the
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377 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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383 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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384 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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395 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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396 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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398 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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405 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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462 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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464 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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466 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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467 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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473 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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482 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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485 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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488 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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496 the source on line for debugging.
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505 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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507 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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508 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, chmod, and sed. Type these
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511 config msdos
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512 make install
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514 To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute
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515 it from the same place in the file system where you built it. As the
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516 /usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the
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517 executables are placed in /emacs/bin/.
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519 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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521 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.