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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000 Free software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end of the file for copying permissions.
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6 BASIC INSTALLATION
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8 The simplest way to build Emacs is to use the `configure' shell script
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9 which attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent
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10 variables and features and find the directories where various system
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11 headers and libraries are kept. It then creates a `Makefile' in each
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12 subdirectory and a `config.h' file containing system-dependent
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13 definitions. Running the `make' utility then builds the package for
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14 your system.
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16 Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which
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17 are supported by it. If this simplified procedure fails, or if you
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18 are using a platform such as MS-Windows, where `configure' script
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19 doesn't work, you might need to use various non-default options, and
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20 maybe perform some of the steps manually. The more detailed
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21 description in the rest of the sections of this guide will help you do
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22 that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
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24 1. If you want to be able to input international characters which
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25 your keyboard doesn't support directly (i.e. you cannot type
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26 them at the shell prompt), download the leim-M.N.tar.gz
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27 distribution and unpack it into the same directory where you have
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28 unpacked the main Emacs distribution. See ADDITIONAL
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29 DISTRIBUTION FILES, below, for more about this.
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31 2. Make sure your system has at least 120 MB of free disk space.
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33 3a. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked Emacs and invoke the
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34 `configure' script:
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36 ./configure
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38 3b. Alternatively, create a separate directory, outside the source
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39 directory, where you want to build Emacs, and invoke `configure'
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40 from there:
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41
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42 SOURCE-DIR/configure
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44 where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. This
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45 may not work unless you use GNU make.
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47 4. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
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48 about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
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49 looking for anything suspicious, such as wrong CPU and operating
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51 libraries that you know are installed on your system, etc.
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53 If you find anything wrong, you will have to pass to `configure'
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54 explicit machine configuration name, and one or more options
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55 which tell it where to find various headers and libraries; refer
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56 to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
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58 If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
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59 Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection
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60 "Image support libraries", below.
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62 If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
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63 you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
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65 5. If you need to run the `configure' script more than once (e.g.,
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66 with some non-default options), always clean the source
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67 directories before running `configure' again:
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69 make distclean
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70 ./configure
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72 6. Invoke the `make' program:
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74 make
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76 7. If `make' succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs'
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77 in the `src' directory. You can try this program, to make sure
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78 it works:
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80 src/emacs -q
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82 8. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
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83 opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
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84 files into their installation directories:
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86 make install
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88 You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
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89 you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
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90 directory where you built Emacs:
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92 make clean
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94 You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files
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95 and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc
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96 versions.
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99 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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101 * leim-M.N.tar.gz
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103 The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international
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104 character scripts allows you to input characters in scripts which are
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105 not directly supported by your keyboard. It is distributed in a
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106 separate tar file because it amounts to a significant fraction of the
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107 size of the distribution. This tar file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz,
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108 with the same version number as Emacs, and it unpacks into the
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109 directory emacs-M.N/leim.
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111 You should unpack leim-M.N.tar.gz into the same directory where you
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112 have previously unpacked the main Emacs distribution. It fills in the
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113 contents of one subdirectory, which is present in the main Emacs
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114 distribution only in dummy form.
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116 Once you have unpacked the Leim tar file into the Emacs source tree,
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117 building and installing Emacs automatically installs the input method
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118 support as well. If you have built Emacs without unpacking Leim
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119 first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again.
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121 * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
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123 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
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124 order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
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125 character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
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126 it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If you do
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127 have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters don't look
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128 right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the intlfonts
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129 distribution might look better.
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131 The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
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144 from the menu, or by clicking "Help" in the menu bar and selecting
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145 "Read Emacs Manual".) It is a good idea to install the Emacs Lisp
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147 documentation of Emacs in Info.
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182 . libXaw3d for fancy 3D-style
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184 . libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
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186 use its own color allocation functions.
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187 . libpng for PNG: ftp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
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188 . libz (for PNG): http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
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189 . libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
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190 Get version 6b -- 6a is reported to fail in
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191 Emacs.
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192 . libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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193 . libungif for GIF:
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194 http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
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196 4.1.0 can crash Emacs.
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198 Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if the
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199 `configure' script finds them on your system, unless you supply the
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200 appropriate --without-LIB option. In some cases, older versions of
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201 these libraries won't work because some routines are missing, and
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202 configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the
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203 --without-LIB options to `configure'. See below for more details.
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207 To take proper advantage of Emacs 21's mule-unicode charsets, you need
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213 ISO-8859 charsets.
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215 XFree86 release 4 (from <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/> and mirrors)
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218 releases.
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223 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X,
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224 see below; search for MSDOG. For Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows NT,
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225 and Windows 2000, see the file nt/INSTALL. For the Mac, see the file
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229 a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
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230 least 2.5 MB and can reach 80 MB or more. If the swapping space is
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235 Building Emacs requires about 95 MB of disk space (including the Emacs
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245 getting around some possible installation problems. The file lists
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246 many different configurations, but only the part for your machine and
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247 operating system is relevant. (The list is arranged in alphabetical
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248 order by the vendor name.)
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254 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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256 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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262 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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264 try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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266 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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268 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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278 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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284 "C-x C-f" and similar commands. You can get fancy 3D-style scroll
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287 availability).
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291 `--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search
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292 for GCC in your path, and use it if present.
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295 a POP3 server by default. Versions of the POP protocol older than
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296 POP3 are not supported. For Kerberos-authenticated POP add
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298 is always enabled, whether Emacs actually uses POP is controlled by
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318 --disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on systems
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326 (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.27').
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347 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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349 `./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile',
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351 on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY
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352 HAND', below.
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356 same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after
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363 disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
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365 If the description of the system configuration printed by `configure'
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367 available when you know they are, look at the `config.log' file for
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368 the trace of the failed tests performed by `configure' to check
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369 whether these features are supported. Typically, some test fails
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371 libraries, or some macro-processor definition in the system headers.
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374 directories for some header files, or link against optional
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375 libraries, or use special compilation options. You can force
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376 `configure' and the build process which follows it to do that by
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377 setting the variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, and CC before
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378 running `configure'. CPPFLAGS lists the options passed to the
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379 preprocessor, CFLAGS are compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used
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380 when linking, LIBS are libraries to link against, and CC is the
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381 command which invokes the compiler.
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384 shell such as Bash, which uses these variables:
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387 CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
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389 (this is all one long line). This tells `configure' to instruct the
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390 preprocessor to look in the `/foo/myinclude' directory for header
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393 switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a
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394 libraries in addition to the standard ones.
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398 "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration
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399 yourself.
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407 where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
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408 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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410 To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
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418 As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use
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419 a directory full of links rather than use the standard GNU
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420 facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above).
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424 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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433 Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
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440 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
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441 documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see
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448 again. If you do this, you are on your own!
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452 something up in the system's password and user information database.
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453 See `./etc/PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects.
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463 7) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish
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464 building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
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465 named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
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466 copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
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467 directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
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469 Or you can "install" the executable and the other Emacs into their
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470 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
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473 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
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474 `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',
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475 and `rcs-checkin'.
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477 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
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479 you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.27'. Since the
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480 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
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484 make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version.
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486 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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487 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
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489 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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490 files installed for all Emacs versions.
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492 When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
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493 in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in
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494 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
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495 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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497 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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499 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
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500 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
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502 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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504 run themselves.
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505 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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506 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument
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507 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
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508 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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510 these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
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512 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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513 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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514 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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518 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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519 "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented
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520 using info files as well, so this directory stands
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521 apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
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523 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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524 in `/usr/local/bin'.
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526 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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527 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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530 information on this.
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532 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
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533 /usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs
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534 info files.
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540 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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541 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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542 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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543 configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all
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544 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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545 unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic
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547 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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551 MAKE VARIABLES
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552
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553 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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554 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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555 command line. For example, if you type
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556
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557 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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559 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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560 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
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561 `/usr/local/bin'.
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562
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563 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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565 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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566 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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567
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568 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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569 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
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570 defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following
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571 subdirectories under `datadir':
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573 - `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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574 file, and the `yow' database.
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575 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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576 like `18.59' or `19.0'. Since these files vary from one version
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577 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
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578 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
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579 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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580 unavailable while installing a new version.
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581
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582 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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583 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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584 We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
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585 - `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
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586 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
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587 themselves.
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588 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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589 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
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590 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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591 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
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592 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
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593 of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
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594 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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595 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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596 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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597 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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598 installed on.
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599
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600 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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601 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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602
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603 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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604 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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605 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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606
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607 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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608 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
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609 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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610 values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be
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611 installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'.
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612
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613 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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614 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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615 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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616 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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617 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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618 by default.
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619
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620 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
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621 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
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622 By including
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623 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
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624 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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625 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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626 directories under that path.
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627
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628 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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629 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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630 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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631
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632 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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633 GNU software; this variable is specific to Emacs.
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634
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635 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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636 files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
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637 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
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638 see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
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639 (where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above).
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640
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641 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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642 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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643 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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644 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
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645 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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646 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
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647 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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648
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649 The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/paths.h,
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650 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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651 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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652 before you run `make'.
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653
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654 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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655 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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656 when running make in the subdirectories.
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657
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659 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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660
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661 Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the
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662 following steps.
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664 1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'.
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666 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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667 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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668 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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669 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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670 `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include
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671 the appropriate system and architecture description files.
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672
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673 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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674 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
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675 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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676 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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677 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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679 3) Create src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile from the corresponding
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680 `Makefile.in' files. First copy `Makefile.in' to `Makefile.c',
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681 then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs,
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682 and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure'
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683 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
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685 4) Create `Makefile' files in various other directories
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686 from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard,
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687 just a matter of substitution.
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689 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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690 program. You need version 2.8 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild
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691 `configure'.
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693 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
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695 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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696 the following steps.
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698 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
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699 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.in', changing
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700 the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
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702 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
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703 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile'
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710 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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711 which has another name that contains a version number.
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712 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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714 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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715 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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716 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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717 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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719 version.
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721
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722 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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724 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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725 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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727 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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728 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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729
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730 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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731 - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl',
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732 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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733 and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
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734 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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736 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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738 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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739 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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741 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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742 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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744 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
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745 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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746 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
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747
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748 3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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749 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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750 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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751 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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752 of installing different versions.
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753
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754 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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755
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756 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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757 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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758 intended for users to run.
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759
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760 5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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761 appropriate man directories.
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762
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763 6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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764 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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765 the source on line for debugging.
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766
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768 PROBLEMS
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770 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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771 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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774 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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775
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776 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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777 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
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778 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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779 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
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780 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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781 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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782 if any of them isn't found.
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783
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784 Recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp' subdirectory using the various
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785 targets in the lisp/Makefile file requires additional utilities:
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786 `find' and `xargs' (from Findutils), `touch' (from Fileutils) GNU
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787 `echo' and `test' (from Sh-utils), `tr, `sort', and `uniq' (from
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788 Textutils), and a port of Bash. However, you should not normally need
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789 to run lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files are distributed in
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790 byte-compiled form as well.
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791
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792 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
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793 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
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794 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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795 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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796 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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797 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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798 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
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799 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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800 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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801 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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802 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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803 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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804 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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805 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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806 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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807
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808 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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809 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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810 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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811 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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812 into problems during the build process.)
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813
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814 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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815 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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816 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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817 support long file names on Windows 9X no matter what was the setting
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818 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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819 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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820 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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821 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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822 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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823 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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824 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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825
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826 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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827
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828 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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829
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830 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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831 your system.)
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832
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833 If you need to type international characters, you will need to unpack
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834 the Leim distribution (see the description near the beginning of this
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835 file). You unpack it from the same directory where you unpacked
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836 Emacs. To unpack Leim with djtar, assuming the Leim distribution is
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837 called `leim.tgz', type this command:
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838
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839 djtar -x leim.tgz
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parents: 23353
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840
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parents: 23353
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841 If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
24452
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
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parents: 24070
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842 distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
24070
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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843 Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
diff changeset
844 unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
diff changeset
845 type this:
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parents: 23353
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846
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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847 djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
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parents: 23353
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848
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66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15209
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849 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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850 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
66a9ef0892a2 Explain about MSDOS installation and long file name support.
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parents: 15209
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851 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
12339
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parents: 12042
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852
3398b88cbd25 Update MSDOS needs list.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 12042
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853 config msdos
3398b88cbd25 Update MSDOS needs list.
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parents: 12042
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854 make install
6062
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parents: 3199
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855
33812
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
856 Running "config msdos" checks for several programs that are required
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
857 to configure and build Emacs; if one of those programs is not found,
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
858 CONFIG.BAT stops and prints an error message. If you have DJGPP
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
859 version 2.0 or 2.01, it will complain about a program called
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
860 DJECHO.EXE. These old versions of DJGPP shipped that program under
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
861 the name ECHO.EXE, so you can simply copy ECHO.EXE to DJECHO.EXE and
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
862 rerun CONFIG.BAT. If you have neither ECHO.EXE nor DJECHO.EXE, you
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
863 should be able to find them in your djdevNNN.zip archive (where NNN is
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
864 the DJGPP version number).
c41a9a242fed Describe a possible problem with djecho.exe in old
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 33678
diff changeset
865
37479
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
866 On Windows NT or Windows 2000, running "config msdos" might print an
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
867 error message like "VDM has been already loaded". This is because
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
868 those systems have a program called `redir.exe' which is incompatible
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
869 with a program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
870 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
871 the front of your PATH environment variable.
a240b159c8df Mention problems with Windows NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36753
diff changeset
872
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parents: 24070
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873 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
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874 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
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875 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
diff changeset
876 command:
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
diff changeset
877
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
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878 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
diff changeset
879
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
diff changeset
880 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
diff changeset
881 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
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882 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
diff changeset
883 default.
3f25405e6e70 Add detailed instructions to unpack and install intlfonts on MS-DOS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 24070
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884
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
diff changeset
885 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
diff changeset
886 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
diff changeset
887 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
diff changeset
888 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
diff changeset
889 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
diff changeset
890 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
24070
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
diff changeset
891 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
diff changeset
892 installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
35062
3168ff2c349b Tweaks to configure instructions and saving space.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35034
diff changeset
893 intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.)
24070
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
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894 The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
diff changeset
895 subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
526d645420b5 Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 23353
diff changeset
896 find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
12349
f5ba89f88cfd Talk about MSDOS type conflict workaround.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 12343
diff changeset
897
15039
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parents: 15017
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898 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
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parents: 15017
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899 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
43c846d45f79 Clarify MSDOS installing and unpacking.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15017
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900 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
19635
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 19352
diff changeset
901 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
c08a8e2d0f27 MSDOS-related changes.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 19352
diff changeset
902 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
c08a8e2d0f27 MSDOS-related changes.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 19352
diff changeset
903 the location of the `info' directory).
6062
e9768f0d0653 Formerly INSTALL.~20~
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 3199
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904
7627
99cf43c08895 Formerly INSTALL.~28~
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 6062
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905 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
99cf43c08895 Formerly INSTALL.~28~
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 6062
diff changeset
906 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
99cf43c08895 Formerly INSTALL.~28~
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 6062
diff changeset
907 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
15825
615a180ced87 Describe djgpp library replacement files.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 15733
diff changeset
908
16861
310fd977a344 Update info about DJGPP.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 16309
diff changeset
909 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
310fd977a344 Update info about DJGPP.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 16309
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910 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
310fd977a344 Update info about DJGPP.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 16309
diff changeset
911 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
32557
cd84bd4a3411 Describe the new --with-FOO options for building with image support.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 26905
diff changeset
912 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
cd84bd4a3411 Describe the new --with-FOO options for building with image support.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 26905
diff changeset
913 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.
34939
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parents: 34879
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914
34994
fb1c795f1a5e Minor style and punctuation changes from Kim Storm.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34939
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915 COPYING PERMISSIONS
fb1c795f1a5e Minor style and punctuation changes from Kim Storm.
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parents: 34939
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916
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parents: 34879
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917 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
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parents: 34879
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918 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
diff changeset
919 copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
diff changeset
920 and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
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921 for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
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922
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
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923 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
diff changeset
924 of this document, or of portions of it,
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
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925 under the above conditions, provided also that they
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
diff changeset
926 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them,
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34879
diff changeset
927 and that any new or changed statements about the activities
44564f6157cc Move the copying conditions to the end of the file.
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parents: 34879
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928 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.