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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996 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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20 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search
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21 for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.)
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23 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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25 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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49 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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69 shared libraries.
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134 and run the program `configure' as follows:
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244 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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267 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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287 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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297 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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309 what, so Emacs can detect editing clashes between
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310 users.
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313 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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318 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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320 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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322 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
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324 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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325 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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326 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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327 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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330 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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331 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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333 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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335 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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337 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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338 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
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343 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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346 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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354 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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355 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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358 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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360 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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362 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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365 `lispdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects its Lisp library.
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370 `locallisppath' indicates where Emacs should search for Lisp files
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374 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp'.
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377 its Lisp files; its default value is the concatenation of
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379 list of directories; Emacs checks them in the order they
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380 appear.
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382 `etcdir' indicates where Emacs should install and expect the rest of
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387 `lockdir' indicates the directory where Emacs keeps track of its
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388 locking information. Its default value, based on
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389 `sharedstatedir' (which see), is `/usr/local/com/emacs/lock'.
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391 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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392 files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
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393 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
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397 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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398 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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399 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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401 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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403 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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405 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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406 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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407 when running make in the subdirectories.
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410 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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419 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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424 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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427 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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428 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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434 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
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445 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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446 the following steps.
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460 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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462 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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464 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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465 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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466 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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467 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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472 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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474 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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475 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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477 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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480 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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482 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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483 and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
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484 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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491 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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492 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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495 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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499 indicated by the PATH_LOCK macro in `./src/paths.h'.
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501 4) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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502 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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503 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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504 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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506
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507 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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509 5) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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510 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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513 6) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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514 appropriate man directories.
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515
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516 7) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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517 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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518 the source on line for debugging.
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521 PROBLEMS
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523 See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various
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524 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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527 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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528
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529 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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530 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
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531 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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532 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
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533 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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534 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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535 if any of them isn't found.
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537 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
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538 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
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539 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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540 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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541 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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542 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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543 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
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544 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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545 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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546 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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547 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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548 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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549 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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550 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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551 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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552
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553 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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554 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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555 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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556 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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557 into problems during the build process.)
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558
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559 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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560 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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561 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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562 support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting
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563 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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564 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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565 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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566 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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567 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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568 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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569 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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571 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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573 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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575 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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576 your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names
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577 collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS,
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578 or if you have set LFN=n on Windows 95, djtar will ask you to supply
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579 alternate names for these files; you can just press `Enter' when this
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580 happens (which makes djtar skip these files) because they aren't
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581 required for MS-DOS.
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583 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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584 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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585 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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587 config msdos
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588 make install
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590 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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591 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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592 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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593 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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594 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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595 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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596 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. The bin
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597 subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory
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598 includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful
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599 if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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601 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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602 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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603 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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604 environment variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc
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605 and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory.
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607 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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608 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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609 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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611 The current version of djgpp 2.0 (as of August 1996) has two bugs that
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612 affect Emacs. We've included corrected versions of two files from
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613 djgpp in the msdos subdirectory: is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work
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614 around the bugs, compile these files and link them into temacs. The
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615 next version of djgpp should have these bugs fixed.