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3199 | 1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide |
7627 | 2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994 Free software Foundation, Inc. |
3199 | 3 |
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18 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: | |
6062 | 19 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; |
20 search for MSDOG.) | |
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22 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle | |
23 a program whose pure code is 900k bytes and whose data area is at | |
24 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is | |
25 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l | |
6062 | 26 loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in.in', or possibly when |
27 running the final dumped Emacs. | |
3199 | 28 |
7627 | 29 Building Emacs requires about 50 Mb of disk space (including the Emacs |
6062 | 30 sources). Once installed, Emacs occupies about 20 Mb in the file |
31 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp | |
32 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If | |
33 the building and installation take place in different directories, | |
7627 | 34 then the installation procedure momentarily requires 50+20 Mb. |
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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 |
3199 | 38 getting around some possible installation problems. |
39 | |
40 3) In the top directory of the Emacs distribution, run the program | |
41 `configure' as follows: | |
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43 ./configure CONFIGURATION-NAME [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ... | |
44 | |
45 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given | |
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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52 system has X, and arrange to use it if present. |
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54 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build | |
55 process where the compiler should look for the include files and | |
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56 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure' |
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57 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X |
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58 Window System files installed in unusual places. |
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60 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you |
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61 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where |
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62 TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for |
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63 `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with |
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64 shared libraries. |
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66 The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should | |
67 compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify | |
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68 `--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search |
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69 for GCC in your path, and use it if present. |
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71 You can build Emacs for several different machine types from a single |
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72 source directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that |
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73 supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. Make separate |
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74 build directories for the different configuration types, and in each |
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75 one, run the Emacs `configure' script. `configure' looks for the |
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76 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in. |
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3199 | 78 The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process |
79 should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'. | |
80 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin | |
81 (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise). | |
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82 - The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/share/emacs/VERSION |
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83 (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.27'). |
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85 PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION |
3199 | 86 (where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like mips-dec-ultrix4.2), |
87 unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise. | |
88 | |
89 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate | |
90 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific | |
91 files, like executables and utility programs. If specified, | |
92 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and | |
93 - The architecture-dependent files go in | |
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94 EXECDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION. |
3199 | 95 EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs. |
96 | |
97 For example, the command | |
98 | |
99 ./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11 | |
100 | |
101 configures Emacs to build for a DECstation running Ultrix, with | |
102 support for the X11 window system. | |
103 | |
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104 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation |
3199 | 105 itself. It just creates the files that influence those things: |
9499 | 106 `./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile', |
107 `lwlib/Makefile', `src/Makefile', and `./src/config.h'. For details | |
108 on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY | |
109 HAND', below. | |
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111 When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and | |
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112 creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the |
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113 same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after |
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114 disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. `configure' |
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115 also creates a file `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests |
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116 to make reconfiguring faster, and a file `config.log' containing compiler |
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117 output (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). You can give |
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118 `configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the |
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120 disable caching, for debugging `configure'. |
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122 The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the | |
123 distribution, but using `configure' is supposed to be simpler. See | |
124 the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the | |
125 configuration yourself. | |
126 | |
127 4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right | |
128 for your system, edit the file `./lisp/site-init.el' containing Emacs | |
129 Lisp code to override them; you probably don't want to edit paths.el | |
130 itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES, | |
131 rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example, | |
132 | |
133 (setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews") | |
134 | |
135 is how you would override the default value of the variable | |
136 news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews"). | |
137 | |
138 Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must | |
139 not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look | |
140 something up in the system's password and user information database. | |
141 See `./PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects. | |
142 | |
6062 | 143 5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs |
144 Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out. Use | |
145 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their | |
146 documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see | |
147 src/Makefile.in.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all | |
7627 | 148 else, use site-init.el. |
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152 you are on your own! |
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3199 | 154 Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must |
155 not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look | |
156 something up in the system's password and user information database. | |
157 See `./PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects. | |
158 | |
7627 | 159 The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not |
160 need to create them if you have nothing to put in them. | |
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162 6) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may | |
163 wish to add to various termcap entries. The files `./etc/termcap.ucb' | |
164 and `./etc/termcap.dat' may already contain appropriately-modified | |
165 entries. | |
166 | |
167 7) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish | |
168 building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file will be | |
169 named `src/emacs'. If you want to have Emacs's executable programs | |
170 and data files installed as well, run `make install'. | |
171 | |
172 By default, Emacs installs its files in the following directories: | |
173 | |
174 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run - | |
7864 | 175 `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient', |
176 and `rcs-checkin'. | |
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178 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library; |
3199 | 179 `VERSION' stands for the number of the Emacs version |
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180 you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.27'. Since the |
3199 | 181 lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to |
182 another, including the version number in the path | |
183 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed | |
184 at the same time; this means that you don't have to | |
185 make Emacs unavailable while installing a new | |
186 version. | |
187 | |
188 Emacs searches for its lisp files in | |
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189 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', then in this |
3199 | 190 directory. |
191 | |
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192 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC |
3199 | 193 file, the `yow' database, and other |
194 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while | |
195 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'. | |
196 | |
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197 `/usr/local/com/emacs/lock' contains files indicating who is editing |
3199 | 198 what, so Emacs can detect editing clashes between |
199 users. | |
200 | |
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201 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable |
3199 | 202 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to |
203 run themselves. | |
204 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are | |
205 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument | |
206 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the | |
207 architecture and operating system of your machine, | |
208 like `mips-dec-ultrix' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since | |
209 these files are specific to the version of Emacs, | |
210 operating system, and architecture in use, including | |
211 the configuration name in the path allows you to have | |
212 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and | |
213 operating systems installed at the same time; this is | |
214 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines | |
215 share the file system Emacs is installed on. | |
216 | |
217 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as | |
218 "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented | |
219 using info files as well, so this directory stands | |
220 apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories. | |
221 | |
222 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed | |
223 in `/usr/local/bin'. | |
224 | |
225 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to | |
226 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search | |
227 for its lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of | |
228 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more | |
229 information on this. | |
230 | |
231 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually | |
232 /usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs | |
233 info files. | |
234 | |
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236 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid |
6062 | 237 to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe. |
238 | |
239 10) You are done! | |
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241 | |
242 MAKE VARIABLES | |
243 | |
244 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data | |
245 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make' | |
246 command line. For example, if you type | |
247 | |
248 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin | |
249 | |
250 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs | |
251 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not | |
252 `/usr/local/bin'. | |
253 | |
254 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set. | |
255 | |
256 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can | |
257 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin. | |
258 | |
259 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent | |
260 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it | |
9499 | 261 defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following |
3199 | 262 subdirectories under `datadir': |
263 - `emacs/VERSION/lisp', containing the Emacs lisp library, and | |
264 - `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the Emacs tutorial, the DOC | |
265 file, and the `yow' database. | |
266 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing, | |
267 like `18.59' or `19.0'. Since these files vary from one version | |
268 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path | |
269 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the | |
270 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs | |
271 unavailable while installing a new version. | |
272 | |
9499 | 273 `sharedstatedir' indicates where to put architecture-independent data files |
3199 | 274 that Emacs modifies while it runs; it defaults to |
9499 | 275 /usr/local/com. We create the following |
276 subdirectories under `sharedstatedir': | |
3199 | 277 - `emacs/lock', containing files indicating who is editing |
278 what, so Emacs can detect editing clashes between | |
279 users. | |
280 | |
9499 | 281 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that |
282 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'. | |
283 We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir': | |
3199 | 284 - `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable |
285 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run | |
286 themselves. | |
287 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing, | |
288 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the | |
289 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating | |
290 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or | |
291 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version | |
292 of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including | |
293 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several | |
294 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems | |
295 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which | |
296 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is | |
297 installed on. | |
298 | |
299 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with | |
300 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'. | |
301 | |
302 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its | |
303 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to | |
304 `/usr/local/man/man1'. | |
305 | |
306 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with. | |
307 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate | |
308 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default | |
309 values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be | |
310 installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'. | |
311 | |
312 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead, | |
313 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the | |
314 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir', | |
9499 | 315 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is |
3199 | 316 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it |
317 by default. | |
318 | |
319 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software | |
320 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'. | |
321 By including | |
322 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft' | |
323 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process | |
324 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate | |
325 directories under that path. | |
326 | |
327 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead | |
328 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent | |
9499 | 329 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'. |
3199 | 330 |
331 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all | |
332 GNU software; here are some variables specific to Emacs. | |
333 | |
334 `lispdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects its lisp | |
6062 | 335 library. Its default value, based on `datadir' (see above), |
3199 | 336 is `/usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/lisp' (where `VERSION' is as |
337 described above). | |
338 | |
339 `locallisppath' indicates where Emacs should search for lisp files | |
340 specific to your site. It should be a colon-separated list of | |
341 directories; Emacs checks them in order before checking | |
6062 | 342 `lispdir'. Its default value, based on `datadir' (see above), |
343 is `/usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp'. | |
3199 | 344 |
345 `lisppath' is the complete list of directories Emacs should search for | |
346 its lisp files; its default value is the concatenation of | |
347 `lispdir' and `locallisppath'. It should be a colon-separated | |
348 list of directories; Emacs checks them in the order they | |
349 appear. | |
350 | |
351 `etcdir' indicates where Emacs should install and expect the rest of | |
352 its architecture-independent data, like the tutorial, DOC | |
353 file, and yow database. Its default value, based on `datadir' | |
354 (which see), is `/usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/etc'. | |
355 | |
356 `lockdir' indicates the directory where Emacs keeps track of its | |
9499 | 357 locking information. Its default value, based on `sharedstatedir' |
3199 | 358 (which see), is `/usr/local/lib/emacs/lock'. |
359 | |
360 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the | |
361 executable files and other architecture-dependent data it uses | |
9499 | 362 while running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which |
3199 | 363 see), is `/usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' |
364 (where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above). | |
365 | |
366 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time | |
367 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build | |
368 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you | |
369 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the | |
370 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top | |
371 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases | |
372 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'. | |
373 | |
374 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the | |
375 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them | |
376 when running make in the subdirectories. | |
377 | |
378 | |
379 CONFIGURATION BY HAND | |
380 | |
7864 | 381 Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the |
382 following steps. | |
3199 | 383 |
384 1) Copy `./src/config.h.in' to `./src/config.h'. | |
385 | |
386 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should | |
387 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to | |
388 see which operating system and architecture description files from | |
389 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit | |
390 `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include | |
391 the appropriate system and architecture description files. | |
392 | |
393 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If | |
394 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h | |
395 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by | |
396 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to | |
397 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'. | |
398 | |
7864 | 399 3) Create src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile from the corresponding |
400 `Makefile.in.in' files. First copy `Makefile.in.in' to `Makefile.in', | |
401 then edit in appropriate substituions for the @...@ constructs, | |
402 and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure' | |
403 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'. | |
3199 | 404 |
7864 | 405 4) Create `Makefile' files in various other directories |
406 from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard, | |
407 just a matter of substitution. | |
3199 | 408 |
409 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf' | |
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3199 | 411 |
412 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND | |
413 | |
9507 | 414 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs |
415 the following steps. | |
3199 | 416 |
417 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces | |
418 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.h.in', changing | |
419 the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'. | |
420 | |
7864 | 421 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates |
422 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile' | |
423 and `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others. | |
3199 | 424 |
7864 | 425 3) Go to directory `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in |
426 the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and | |
3199 | 427 `../lib-src'. |
428 | |
429 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs, | |
7864 | 430 which has another name that contains a version number. |
431 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place. | |
3199 | 432 |
433 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the | |
434 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for | |
435 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new | |
436 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC | |
437 file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs | |
438 version. | |
439 | |
440 | |
441 INSTALLATION BY HAND | |
442 | |
9507 | 443 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main |
444 directory of the Emacs distribution. | |
3199 | 445 |
446 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables | |
447 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'. | |
448 | |
449 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied. | |
7627 | 450 - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl', |
7864 | 451 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup', |
452 and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied. | |
453 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin' | |
3199 | 454 are intended to be run by users; they are handled below. |
9498 | 455 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were |
3199 | 456 used in building Emacs, and are not needed any more. |
457 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into | |
458 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them. | |
459 | |
460 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in | |
461 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the | |
462 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you | |
463 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs | |
464 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir' | |
465 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info. | |
466 | |
467 3) Create a directory for Emacs to use for clash detection, named as | |
468 indicated by the PATH_LOCK macro in `./src/paths.h'. | |
469 | |
470 4) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory | |
471 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name | |
472 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named | |
473 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way | |
474 of installing different versions. | |
475 | |
476 You can delete `./src/temacs'. | |
477 | |
478 5) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and | |
7864 | 479 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are |
3199 | 480 intended for users to run. |
481 | |
482 6) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the | |
483 appropriate man directories. | |
484 | |
485 7) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not | |
7864 | 486 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep |
487 the source on line for debugging. | |
3199 | 488 |
489 | |
490 PROBLEMS | |
491 | |
492 See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various | |
493 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them. | |
494 | |
495 | |
6062 | 496 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS) |
497 | |
7627 | 498 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG |
499 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, chmod, and sed. Type these | |
500 commands: | |
6062 | 501 |
502 config msdos | |
503 make install | |
504 | |
7627 | 505 To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute |
506 it from the same place in the file system where you built it. As the | |
507 /usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the | |
508 executables are placed in /emacs/bin/. | |
6062 | 509 |
7627 | 510 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such |
511 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not | |
512 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work. |