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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
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3 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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7 This file contains general information. For more specific information
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8 for the Windows, GNUstep/Mac OS X, and MS-DOS ports, also see the files
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9 nt/INSTALL nextstep/INSTALL, and msdos/INSTALL. For information
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10 specific to building from a CVS checkout (rather than a release), see
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11 the file INSTALL.CVS.
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14 BASIC INSTALLATION
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16 The simplest way to build Emacs is to use the `configure' shell script
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17 which attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent
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18 variables and features and find the directories where various system
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19 headers and libraries are kept. It then creates a `Makefile' in each
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20 subdirectory and a `config.h' file containing system-dependent
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21 definitions. Running the `make' utility then builds the package for
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22 your system.
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24 Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which
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25 are supported by it. If this simplified procedure fails, or if you
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26 are using a platform such as MS-Windows, where `configure' script
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27 doesn't work, you might need to use various non-default options, and
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29 description in the rest of the sections of this guide will help you do
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30 that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
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32 1. Make sure your system has at least 120 MB of free disk space.
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34 2a. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked Emacs and invoke the
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37 ./configure
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39 2b. Alternatively, create a separate directory, outside the source
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40 directory, where you want to build Emacs, and invoke `configure'
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43 SOURCE-DIR/configure
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54 If you find anything wrong, you will have to pass to `configure'
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56 which tell it where to find various headers and libraries; refer
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57 to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
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59 If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
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60 Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection
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63 If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
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64 you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
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67 with some non-default options), always clean the source
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70 make distclean
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81 src/emacs -q
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84 opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
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85 files into their installation directories:
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87 make install
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89 You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
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90 you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
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91 directory where you built Emacs:
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93 make clean
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95 You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files
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96 and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc
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100 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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102 * Complex Text Layout support libraries
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104 Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db", "libm17n-flt", "libotf"
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105 to correctly display such complex scripts as Indic and Khmer.
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106 On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux, these libraries may be
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107 already present or available as additional packages. Note that if
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108 there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
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109 time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
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110 corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will contain
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111 header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can download and
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112 build libraries from sources.
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114 The sources of these libraries are available by anonymous CVS from
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115 cvs.m17n.org.
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117 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/m17n login
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118 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/m17n co m17n-db
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119 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/m17n co m17n-lib
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120 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/m17n co libotf
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122 For m17n-lib, if you have problems with making the whole package
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123 because you lack some other packages on which m17n-lib depends, try to
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124 configure it with the option "--without-gui".
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128 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
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129 that Emacs can use to display international characters. If you see a
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130 non-ASCII character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have
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131 a font for it. You might find one in the intlfonts distribution. If
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132 you do have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters
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133 don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the
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135
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136 The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
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137 package for printing international characters. The file
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138 lisp/ps-mule.el defines the *.bdf font files required for printing
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139 each character set.
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140
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141 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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142 in the intlfonts/README file.
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143
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144 * Image support libraries
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145
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146 Emacs needs optional libraries to be able to display images (with the
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147 exception of PBM and XBM images whose support is built-in).
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148
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149 On some systems, particularly on GNU/Linux, these libraries may
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150 already be present or available as additional packages. Note that if
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151 there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
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152 time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
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153 corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will
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154 contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can
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155 download and build libraries from sources. None of them are vital for
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156 running Emacs; however, note that Emacs will not be able to use
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157 colored icons in the toolbar if XPM support is not compiled in.
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158
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159 Here's the list of these optional libraries, and the URLs where they
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160 can be found:
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161
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162 . libXaw3d for fancy 3D-style
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163 scroll bars: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/
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164 . libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
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165 Get version 3.4k or later, which lets Emacs
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166 use its own color allocation functions.
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167 . libpng for PNG: ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/
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168 . libz (for PNG): http://www.zlib.net/
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169 . libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
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170 Get version 6b -- 6a is reported to fail in
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171 Emacs.
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172 . libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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173 . libgif for GIF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
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174
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175 Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if the
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176 `configure' script finds them on your system, unless you supply the
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177 appropriate --without-LIB option. In some cases, older versions of
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178 these libraries won't work because some routines are missing, and
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179 configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the
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180 --without-LIB options to `configure'. See below for more details.
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181
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182 * Extra fonts
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183
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184 The Emacs distribution does not include fonts and does not install
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185 them. You must do that yourself.
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186
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187 Emacs running on the GNU system supports both X fonts and local fonts
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188 (i.e. the fonts managed by the fontconfig library).
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189
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190 For `Unicode' (ISO 10646) X fonts, see
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191 <URL:http://czyborra.com/unifont/> (packaged in Debian),
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192 <URL:http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/> (packaged in Debian). (In
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193 recent Debian versions, there is an extensive `misc-fixed' iso10646-1
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194 in the default X installation.) Perhaps also see
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195 <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.
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196
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197 <URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> has basic fonts for Emacs's
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198 ISO-8859 charsets.
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199
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200 XFree86 release 4 (from <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/> and mirrors)
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201 contains font support for most, if not all, of the charsets that Emacs
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202 currently supports, including iso10646-1 encoded fonts for use with
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203 the mule-unicode charsets. The font files should also be usable with
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204 older X releases. Note that XFree 4 contains many iso10646-1 fonts
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205 with minimal character repertoires, which can cause problems -- see
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206 etc/PROBLEMS.
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207
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208 BDF Unicode fonts etl-unicode.tar.gz are available from
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209 <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and
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210 <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/mirror/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>. These
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211 fonts can also be used by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode
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212 characters.
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213
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214 Finally, the Web pages <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/index.html>
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215 and <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/resources.html> list a large
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216 number of free Unicode fonts.
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217
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218 * GNU/Linux development packages
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219
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220 Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by
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221 default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but
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222 not those you need to compile it. For example, to compile Emacs with
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223 X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development'
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224 package. For example, in April 2003, the package names to install
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225 were `XFree86-devel' and `Xaw3d-devel' on Red Hat. On Debian, the
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226 packages necessary to build the installed version should be
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227 sufficient; they can be installed using `apt-get build-dep emacs21' in
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228 Debian 3 and above.
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229
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230
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231 DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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232
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233 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X,
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234 see msdos/INSTALL. For Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows
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235 2000, Windows XP/2003, and Windows Vista/2008, see the file
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236 nt/INSTALL. For GNUstep and Mac OS X, see nextstep/INSTALL.)
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238 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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239 a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
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240 least 2.8 MB and can reach 100 MB or more. If the swapping space is
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241 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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242 loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when
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243 running the final dumped Emacs.
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244
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245 Building Emacs requires about 140 MB of disk space (including the
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246 Emacs sources) Once installed, Emacs occupies about 77 MB in the file
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247 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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248 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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249 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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250 then the installation procedure momentarily requires 140+77 MB.
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252 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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253 give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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254 getting around some possible installation problems. The file lists
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255 many different configurations, but only the part for your machine and
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256 operating system is relevant. (The list is arranged in alphabetical
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257 order by the vendor name.)
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258
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259 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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260 or in a separate directory.
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261
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262 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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263 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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265 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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268 in `./etc/MACHINES', with the system version number added at the end.
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270 You should try first omitting CONFIGURATION-NAME. This way,
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271 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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272 or if something goes wrong in building or installing Emacs this way,
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273 try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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275 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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276 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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277 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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282 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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283 Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also
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286 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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287 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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288 TOOLKIT is `athena', `motif' or `gtk' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms
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289 for `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit
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290 with shared libraries. A free implementation of Motif, called
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291 LessTif, is available from <http://www.lesstif.org>. Compiling with
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292 LessTif or Motif causes a standard File Selection Dialog to pop up
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294 3D-style scroll bars, even without LessTif/Motif, if you have the
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295 Xaw3d library installed (see "Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d
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296 availability).
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298 If `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' is specified, you can tell configure where
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299 to search for GTK by specifying `--with-pkg-config-prog=PATH' where
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300 PATH is the pathname to pkg-config. Note that GTK version 2.4 or
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303 The Emacs mail reader RMAIL is configured to be able to read mail from
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304 a POP3 server by default. Versions of the POP protocol older than
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305 POP3 are not supported. For Kerberos-authenticated POP add
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307 is always enabled, whether Emacs actually uses POP is controlled by
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308 individual users--see the Rmail chapter of the Emacs manual.
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310 For image support you may have to download, build, and install the
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311 appropriate image support libraries for image types other than XBM and
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312 PBM, see the list of URLs in "ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES" above.
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313 (Note that PNG support requires libz in addition to libpng.)
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316 even though configure finds the libraries, you can configure with one
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317 or more of these options:
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319 --without-xpm for XPM image support
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320 --without-jpeg for JPEG image support
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321 --without-tiff for TIFF image support
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322 --without-gif for GIF image support
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323 --without-png for PNG image support
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325 Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable LessTif/Motif or Xaw3d
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326 scroll bars.
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328 Use --without-xim to inhibit the default use of X Input Methods. In
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331 Use --disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on
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332 systems which support that.
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334 Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
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343 PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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347 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
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348 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
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352 EXECDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION.
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357 ./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11
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360 support for the X11 window system.
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362 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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364 `./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile',
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365 `lwlib/Makefile', `src/Makefile', and `./src/config.h'. For details
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366 on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY
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367 HAND', below.
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371 same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after
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372 disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. `configure'
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374 to make reconfiguring faster, and a file `config.log' containing compiler
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375 output (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). You can give
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376 `configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the
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377 tests in FILE instead of `config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to
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378 disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
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382 available when you know they are, look at the `config.log' file for
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383 the trace of the failed tests performed by `configure' to check
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385 because the compiler cannot find some function in the system
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389 directories for some header files, or link against optional
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390 libraries, or use special compilation options. You can force
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391 `configure' and the build process which follows it to do that by
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392 setting the variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, CPP and CC
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395 compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used when linking, LIBS are
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396 libraries to link against, and CC is the command which invokes the
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399 Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like
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403 CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
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405 (this is all one long line). This tells `configure' to instruct the
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406 preprocessor to look in the `/foo/myinclude' directory for header
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409 switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a
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410 libraries in addition to the standard ones.
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412 For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' use
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413 pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed.
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414 If you want pkg-config to look in special directories, you have to set
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415 the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories
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417 For example:
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419 PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig' \
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420 ./configure
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423 distribution, but using `configure' is easier. See the section called
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424 "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration
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425 yourself.
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426
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427 3b) To build in a separate directory, go to that directory
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428 and run the program `configure' as follows:
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430 SOURCE-DIR/configure CONFIGURATION-NAME [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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432 SOURCE-DIR refers to the top-level Emacs source directory which is
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433 where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
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434 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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435
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436 To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
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439 3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory by filling
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440 it full of symlinks to the files in the real source directory.
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441 If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails:
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442 it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.
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444 As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use
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445 a directory full of links rather than use the standard GNU
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446 facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above).
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447
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449 for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with Emacs
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450 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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457 news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews").
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459 Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
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460 variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the
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461 variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are
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462 doing, you'll make a mistake.
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465 Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out. Use
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466 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
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467 documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see
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468 src/Makefile.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all
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469 else, use site-init.el. Do not load byte-compiled code which
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470 was build with a non-nil value of `byte-compile-dynamic'.
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472 If you set load-path to a different value in site-init.el or
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473 site-load.el, Emacs will use *precisely* that value when it starts up
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474 again. If you do this, you are on your own!
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475
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476 Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must
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477 not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look
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478 something up in the system's password and user information database.
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479 See `./etc/PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects.
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481 The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not
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486 and `./etc/termcap.dat' may already contain appropriately-modified
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489 7) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish
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490 building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
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491 named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
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492 copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
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493 directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
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495 Or you can "install" the executable and the other Emacs into their
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496 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
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497 are installed in the following directories:
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499 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
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500 `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',
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501 and `rcs-checkin'.
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503 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
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505 you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.27'. Since the
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506 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
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507 another, including the version number in the path
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509 at the same time; in particular, you don't have to
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510 make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version.
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511
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512 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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514 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
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515 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
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517 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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519 run themselves.
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520 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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521 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument
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522 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
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523 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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526 operating system, and architecture in use, including
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527 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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528 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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529 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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530 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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531 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
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533 `/usr/local/share/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs,
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534 known as "info files". Many other GNU programs are
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535 documented using info files as well, so this directory
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536 stands apart from the other, Emacs-specific
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539 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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540 in `/usr/local/bin'.
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542 Any version of Emacs, whether installed or not, also looks for Lisp
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543 files in these directories.
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544
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545 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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546 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
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547
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548 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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549 files installed for all Emacs versions.
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550
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551 When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
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552 in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in
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553 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
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554 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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555
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556 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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557 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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558 for its Lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of
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559 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
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560 information on this.
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561
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562 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
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563 /usr/local/share/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the
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564 Emacs info files.
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565
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566 9) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox files,
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567 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
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568 to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe.
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570 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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571 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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572 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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573 configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all
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574 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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575 unneeded files in the leim subdirectories of your site's lisp
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576 directory (usually /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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577
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579
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580 MAKE VARIABLES
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581
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582 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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583 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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584 command line. For example, if you type
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585
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586 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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587
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588 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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589 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
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590 `/usr/local/bin'.
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591
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592 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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593
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594 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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595 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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596
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597 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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598 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
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599 defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following
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600 subdirectories under `datadir':
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601 - `emacs/VERSION/lisp', containing the Emacs Lisp library, and
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602 - `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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603 file, and the `yow' database.
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604 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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605 like `18.59' or `19.0'. Since these files vary from one version
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606 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
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607 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
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608 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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609 unavailable while installing a new version.
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610
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611 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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612 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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613 We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
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614 - `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
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615 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
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616 themselves.
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617 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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618 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
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619 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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620 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
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621 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
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622 of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
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623 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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624 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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625 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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626 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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627 installed on.
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628
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629 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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630 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/share/info'.
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631
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632 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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633 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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634 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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635
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636 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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637 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
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638 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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639 values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be
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640 installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'.
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641
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642 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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643 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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644 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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645 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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646 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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647 by default.
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648
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649 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
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650 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
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651 By including
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652 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
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653 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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654 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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655 directories under that path.
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656
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657 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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658 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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659 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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661 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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662 GNU software; this variable is specific to Emacs.
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664 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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665 files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
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666 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
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670 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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671 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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672 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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673 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
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674 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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675 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
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676 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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678 The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/paths.h,
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679 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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680 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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681 before you run `make'.
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682
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684 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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685 when running make in the subdirectories.
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688 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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696 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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697 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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698 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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700 the appropriate system and architecture description files.
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705 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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706 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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710 then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs,
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711 and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure'
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712 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
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719 program. You need version 2.51 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild
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720 `configure'.
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721
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722 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
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724 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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725 the following steps.
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727 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
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731 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
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732 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `make-docfile' and
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733 `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others.
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736 the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
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738
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739 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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740 which has another name that contains a version number.
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741 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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742
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743 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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744 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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745 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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746 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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747 file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs
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748 version.
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749
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750
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751 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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752
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753 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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754 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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756 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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757 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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758
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759 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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760 - The programs `cvtmail', `fakemail', `hexl',
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761 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', and `vcdiff' are used by Emacs;
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762 they do need to be copied.
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763 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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764 are intended to be run by users; they are handled below.
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765 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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766 used in building Emacs, and are not needed any more.
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767 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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768 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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769
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770 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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771 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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772 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
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773 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
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774 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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775 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
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776
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777 3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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779 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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780 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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781 of installing different versions.
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782
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783 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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784
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785 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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786 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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788
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789 5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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790 appropriate man directories.
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793 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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794 the source on line for debugging.
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797 PROBLEMS
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799 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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800 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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801
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802 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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803
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804 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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805 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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806 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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807 (at your option) any later version.
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808
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809 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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810 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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811 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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812 GNU General Public License for more details.
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813
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814 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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815 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.