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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994 Free software Foundation, Inc.
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4 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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5 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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6 copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
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7 and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
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8 for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
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10 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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11 of this document, or of portions of it,
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12 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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13 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them,
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15 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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18 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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19 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below;
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20 search for MSDOG.)
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22 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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24 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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25 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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29 Building Emacs requires about 50 Mb of disk space (including the Emacs
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31 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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32 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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33 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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36 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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37 give to the `configure' program. That file sometimes offers hints for
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38 getting around some possible installation problems.
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40 3) In the top directory of the Emacs distribution, run the program
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41 `configure' as follows:
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45 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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46 in `./etc/MACHINES'. If omitted, `configure' will try to guess your
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47 system type by inspecting its environment; if it cannot, you must find
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48 the appropriate configuration name in `./etc/MACHINES' and specify it
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51 The `--with-x', `--with-x11', and `--with-x10' options specify which
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52 window system Emacs should support. If you don't want X support,
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53 specify `--with-x=no'. If all of these options are omitted,
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54 `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your system has
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55 X11, and arrange to use it if present.
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57 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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58 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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59 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, your
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60 compiler should be able to find these by default; these options should
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64 You can specify toolkit operation when you configure Emacs; use the
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65 option --with-x-toolkit.
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67 Note: on some systems, it does not work to use the toolkit with shared
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68 libraries.
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70 The `--run-in-place' option sets up default values for the path
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71 variables in `./Makefile' so that Emacs will expect to find its data
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72 files (lisp libraries, runnable programs, and the like) in the same
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73 locations they occupy while Emacs builds. This means that you don't
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74 have to install Emacs in order to run it; it uses its data files as
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75 they were unpacked.
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77 The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
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78 compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify
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79 `--with-gcc=no'. If this option is omitted, `configure' will search
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82 The `--srcdir=DIR' option specifies that the configuration and build
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83 processes should look for the Emacs source code in DIR, when DIR is
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84 not the current directory.
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86 You can use `--srcdir' to build Emacs for several different machine
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89 specifying the common source directory with `--srcdir'.
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91 The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
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92 should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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93 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
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94 (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
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95 - The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/lib/emacs/VERSION
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96 (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.7').
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97 - The architecture-dependent files go in
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98 PREFIXDIR/lib/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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99 (where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like mips-dec-ultrix4.2),
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102 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
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103 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
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104 files, like executables and utility programs. If specified,
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105 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and
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106 - The architecture-dependent files go in
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107 EXECDIR/lib/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION.
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108 EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs.
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110 For example, the command
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112 ./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11
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114 configures Emacs to build for a DECstation running Ultrix, with
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115 support for the X11 window system.
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117 The `configure' program does not accept abbreviations for its
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118 options.
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120 Note that `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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121 itself. It just creates the files that influence those things:
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122 `./Makefile', `build-install', and `./src/config.h'. For details on
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123 exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY HAND',
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126 When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and
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127 leaves a copy in the file `config.status'. That file is also a shell
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128 script which, when run, recreates the same configuration; it contains
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129 the verbal description as a comment. If `configure' exits with an
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130 error after disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'.
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132 The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
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133 distribution, but using `configure' is supposed to be simpler. See
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134 the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the
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135 configuration yourself.
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137 4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right
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138 for your system, edit the file `./lisp/site-init.el' containing Emacs
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139 Lisp code to override them; you probably don't want to edit paths.el
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140 itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES,
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141 rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example,
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143 (setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")
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145 is how you would override the default value of the variable
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146 news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews").
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148 Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must
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149 not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look
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150 something up in the system's password and user information database.
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151 See `./PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects.
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153 5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs
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154 Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out. Use
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155 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
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156 documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see
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157 src/Makefile.in.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all
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183 `/usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
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197 `/usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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233 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
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250 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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253 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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261 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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262 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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275 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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278 `statedir' indicates where to put architecture-independent data files
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283 what, so Emacs can detect editing clashes between
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284 users.
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286 `libdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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292 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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294 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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295 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
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300 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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304 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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305 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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307 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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313 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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320 `statedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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321 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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332 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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333 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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334 path variables - `bindir' and `libdir'.
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336 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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337 GNU software; here are some variables specific to Emacs.
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339 `lispdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects its lisp
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344 `locallisppath' indicates where Emacs should search for lisp files
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350 `lisppath' is the complete list of directories Emacs should search for
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351 its lisp files; its default value is the concatenation of
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353 list of directories; Emacs checks them in the order they
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356 `etcdir' indicates where Emacs should install and expect the rest of
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361 `lockdir' indicates the directory where Emacs keeps track of its
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362 locking information. Its default value, based on `statedir'
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365 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the
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366 executable files and other architecture-dependent data it uses
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371 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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372 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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373 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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375 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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377 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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379 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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380 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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384 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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386 Running the `configure' program performs the following steps.
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390 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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391 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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392 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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393 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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397 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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399 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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405 the variables in the sections entitled "Things `configure' Might Edit"
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406 and "Where To Install Things." Note that you may only need to change
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407 the variables `prefix' and `exec_prefix', since the rest of the
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408 variables have reasonable defaults based on them. For each Makefile
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409 variable of this type, there is a corresponding configure option; for
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410 example, to change the location of the lock directory, you might use
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415 copy `./build-ins.in' to `./build-install', and edit the
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418 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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421 configuration code and autoconf macros. New versions of autoconf
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422 could very well break this arrangement, so it may be wise to avoid
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423 rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when possible.
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428 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' or running the shell script
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429 `build-install' in the top directory performs the following steps.
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432 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.h.in', changing
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433 the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
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435 2) Cd to `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates executables named
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436 `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile' and `digest-doc'
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437 and `test-distrib'. And others.
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439 3) Cd to `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in the `./lisp'
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440 and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
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444 assigning it a new build version number by incrementing the build
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445 version stored in `./lisp/version.el'.
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447 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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448 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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449 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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450 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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452 version.
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456
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457 The steps below are done by the shell script `build-install' or by
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458 running `make install' in the main directory of the Emacs
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459 distribution.
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461 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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462 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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466 `movemail', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup', and `yow' are used by
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467 Emacs; they do need to be copied.
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468 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs2log'
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469 are intended to be run by users; they are handled below.
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470 - The programs `make-docfile', `make-path', and `test-distrib' were
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471 used in building Emacs, and are not needed any more.
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473 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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475 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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476 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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479 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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485 4) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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486 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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487 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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488 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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489 of installing different versions.
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491 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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493 5) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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494 `rcs2log' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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495 intended for users to run.
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496
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497 6) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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498 appropriate man directories.
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500 7) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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501 used by Emacs once it is built. The source would be handy for
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502 debugging.
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505 PROBLEMS
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506
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507 See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various
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508 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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511 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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513 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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514 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, chmod, and sed. Type these
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517 config msdos
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518 make install
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520 To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute
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521 it from the same place in the file system where you built it. As the
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522 /usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the
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523 executables are placed in /emacs/bin/.
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525 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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527 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.