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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997 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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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 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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20 * leim-M.N.tar.gz
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22 The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international
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23 character scripts is distributed in a separate tar file because it
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24 amounts to a significant fraction of the size of the distribution.
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25 This tar file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz, with the same version number
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26 as Emacs, and it unpacks into the directory emacs-M.N/leim.
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28 You should unpack leim-M.N.tar.gz into the same directory where you
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29 have previously unpacked the main Emacs distribution. It fills in the
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30 contents of one subdirectory, which is present in the main Emacs
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33 Once you have unpacked the Leim tar file into the Emacs source tree,
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34 building and installing Emacs automatically installs the input method
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35 support as well. If you have built Emacs without unpacking Leim
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36 first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again.
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38 * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
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40 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
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41 order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
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42 character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
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43 it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If some
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44 characters don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font
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45 from the intlfonts distribution might look better.
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47 The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
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48 package for printing international characters. The file
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49 lisp/ps-mule.el defines the .bdf font files required for printing
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50 each character set.
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52 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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53 in the intlfonts/README file.
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55 * elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz
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57 This distribution contains the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual which
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58 complements the Emacs Lisp Manual. It is a good idea to install the
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59 Emacs Lisp Reference Manual after installing Emacs, to complete the
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60 on-line documentation of Emacs in Info.
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62 If you have installed Texinfo, you can install the Emacs Lisp
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63 Reference Manual this way:
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65 cd elisp-manual-M.N
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66 ./configure --prefix=PREFIXDIR
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67 make install
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69 Otherwise, you can install it manually. Just copy the files elisp and
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70 elisp-* from the elisp-manual-M.N directory to your site's info
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71 directory (see the description of `infodir', below), and make sure
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72 that file `dir' in this directory contains an entry like this:
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74 * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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76 * Image support libraries
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78 Emacs needs optional libraries to be able to display images (with the
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79 exception of PBM and XBM images whose support is built-in). On some
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80 systems these may already be present or available as additional
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81 packages, particularly on GNU/Linux. (In some cases older versions
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83 avoid such old versions.)
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85 If necessary, you can build them from source. None are vital for
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86 running Emacs. Here's the list of these optional libraries, and the
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87 URLs where they can be found:
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89 . libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
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90 . libpng for PNG: ftp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
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91 . libz (for PNG): http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
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92 . libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
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93 . libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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94 . libungif for GIF:
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95 http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
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97 Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if configure
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98 finds them on your system unless you supply the appropriate
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99 --without-LIB option. See below for more details.
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102 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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104 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search
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105 for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.
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106 For the Mac, see the file mac/INSTALL.)
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108 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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109 a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
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110 least 2.5 MB and can reach 80 MB or more. If the swapping space is
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111 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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113 running the final dumped Emacs.
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115 Building Emacs requires about 95 MB of disk space (including the Emacs
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116 sources), or 130 MB if Leim is used. Once installed, Emacs occupies
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117 about 60 MB (70 MB with Leim) in the file system where it is
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118 installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp libraries,
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119 miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If the building
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120 and installation take place in different directories, then the
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121 installation procedure momentarily requires 95+60 MB (130+170 MB).
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123 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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124 give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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127 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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128 or in a separate directory.
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130 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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131 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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133 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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135 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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136 in `./etc/MACHINES', with the system version number added at the end.
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138 You should try first omitting CONFIGURATION-NAME. This way,
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139 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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140 or if something goes wrong in building or installing Emacs this way,
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141 try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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254 As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use
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256 facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above).
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306 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
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313 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
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316 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
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322 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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323 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
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325 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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330 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
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331 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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333 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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335 architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
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336 running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
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338 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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339 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to
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340 run themselves.
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341 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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342 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument
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343 you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
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344 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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345 like `mips-dec-ultrix' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since
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348 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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349 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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350 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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351 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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352 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
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354 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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355 "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented
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357 apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
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359 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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362 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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363 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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365 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
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366 information on this.
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368 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
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369 /usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs
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370 info files.
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373 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
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376 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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377 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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378 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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380 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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381 unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic
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383 /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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387 MAKE VARIABLES
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389 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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390 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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391 command line. For example, if you type
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393 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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395 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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399 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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401 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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402 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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415 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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419 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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424 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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426 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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431 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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433 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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436 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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437 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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439 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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441 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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442
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443 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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444 It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
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445 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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446 values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be
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447 installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'.
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449 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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450 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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451 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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452 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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454 by default.
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456 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
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457 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
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458 By including
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460 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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461 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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462 directories under that path.
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463
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464 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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465 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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466 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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468 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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469 GNU software; this variable is specific to Emacs.
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471 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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473 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
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477 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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478 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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479 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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480 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
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481 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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482 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
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483 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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485 The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/paths.h,
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486 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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487 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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488 before you run `make'.
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489
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490 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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491 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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492 when running make in the subdirectories.
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495 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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497 Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the
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502 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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503 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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504 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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505 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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507 the appropriate system and architecture description files.
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509 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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510 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
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511 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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512 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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513 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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517 then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs,
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518 and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure'
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519 that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
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522 from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard,
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523 just a matter of substitution.
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524
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525 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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526 program. You need version 2.0 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild `configure'.
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527
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528 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
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529
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530 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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531 the following steps.
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532
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533 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
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534 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.in', changing
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535 the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
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536
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537 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
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538 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile'
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539 and `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others.
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540
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541 3) Go to directory `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in
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542 the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
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544
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545 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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546 which has another name that contains a version number.
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547 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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549 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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550 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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551 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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552 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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553 file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs
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554 version.
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555
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557 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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558
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559 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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560 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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562 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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563 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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564
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565 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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566 - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl',
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567 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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568 and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
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569 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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573 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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574 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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576 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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577 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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578 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
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579 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
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580 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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581 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
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582
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584 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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585 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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586 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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587 of installing different versions.
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588
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589 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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590
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591 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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592 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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593 intended for users to run.
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594
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595 5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
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596 appropriate man directories.
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597
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598 6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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599 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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600 the source on line for debugging.
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602
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603 PROBLEMS
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605 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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606 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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607
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609 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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611 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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612 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
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613 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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614 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
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615 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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616 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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617 if any of them isn't found.
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618
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619 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
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620 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
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621 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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622 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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623 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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624 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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625 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
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626 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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627 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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628 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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629 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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630 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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631 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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632 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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633 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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634
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635 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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636 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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637 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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638 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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639 into problems during the build process.)
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640
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641 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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642 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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643 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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644 support long file names on Windows 9X no matter what was the setting
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645 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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646 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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647 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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648 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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649 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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650 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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651 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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652
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653 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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654
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655 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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656
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657 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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658 your system.)
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659
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660 If you need to type international characters, you will need to unpack
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661 the Leim distribution (see the description near the beginning of this
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662 file). You unpack it from the same directory where you unpacked
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663 Emacs. To unpack Leim with djtar, assuming the Leim distribution is
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664 called `leim.tgz', type this command:
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665
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666 djtar -x leim.tgz
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667
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668 If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
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669 distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
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670 Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
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671 unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
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672 type this:
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673
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674 djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
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675
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676 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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677 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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678 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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679
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680 config msdos
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681 make install
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682
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683 Running "config msdos" checks for several programs that are required
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684 to configure and build Emacs; if one of those programs is not found,
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685 CONFIG.BAT stops and prints an error message. If you have DJGPP
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686 version 2.0 or 2.01, it will complain about a program called
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687 DJECHO.EXE. These old versions of DJGPP shipped that program under
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688 the name ECHO.EXE, so you can simply copy ECHO.EXE to DJECHO.EXE and
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689 rerun CONFIG.BAT. If you have neither ECHO.EXE nor DJECHO.EXE, you
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690 should be able to find them in your djdevNNN.zip archive (where NNN is
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691 the DJGPP version number).
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692
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693 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
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694 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
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695 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
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696 command:
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697
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698 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
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699
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700 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
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701 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
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702 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
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703 default.
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704
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705 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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706 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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707 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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708 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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709 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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710 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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711 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
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712 installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
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713 intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
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714 The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
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715 subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
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716 find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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718 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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719 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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720 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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721 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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722 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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723 the location of the `info' directory).
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724
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725 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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726 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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727 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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729 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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730 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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731 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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732 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
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733 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.