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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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2 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
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3 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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8 This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs.
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17 On most Unix systems, you build Emacs by first running the `configure'
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18 shell script. This attempts to deduce the correct values for
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33 sections if you need to.
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35 1. Unpacking the Emacs 23.2 release requires about 170 MB of free
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64 Refer to the section DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION below.
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68 subsection "Image support libraries" below.
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72 its job and proceed.
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95 make install
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97 You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
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98 you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
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111 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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117 On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux, these libraries may be
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118 already present or available as additional packages. Note that if
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119 there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
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120 time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
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121 corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will contain
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122 header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can download and
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123 build libraries from sources.
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125 The sources of these libraries are available by anonymous CVS from
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126 cvs.m17n.org.
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130 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/m17n co m17n-lib
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131 % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/m17n co libotf
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133 For m17n-lib, if you have problems with making the whole package
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135 configure it with the option "--without-gui".
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144 don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the
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150 each character set.
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152 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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153 in the intlfonts/README file.
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155 * Image support libraries
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157 Emacs needs optional libraries to be able to display images (with the
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158 exception of PBM and XBM images whose support is built-in).
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160 On some systems, particularly on GNU/Linux, these libraries may
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162 there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
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163 time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
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164 corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will
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165 contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can
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166 download and build libraries from sources. None of them are vital for
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167 running Emacs; however, note that Emacs will not be able to use
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168 colored icons in the toolbar if XPM support is not compiled in.
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171 where they can be found (in the unlikely event that your distribution
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176 . libpng for PNG: http://www.libpng.org/
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177 . libz (for PNG): http://www.zlib.net/
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178 . libjpeg for JPEG: http://www.ijg.org/
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179 . libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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180 . libgif for GIF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
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182 Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if the
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183 `configure' script finds them on your system, unless you supply the
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184 appropriate --without-LIB option. In some cases, older versions of
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185 these libraries won't work because some routines are missing, and
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186 configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the
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187 --without-LIB options to `configure', if you need to.
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191 The Emacs distribution does not include fonts and does not install
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192 them.
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194 On the GNU system, Emacs supports both X fonts and local fonts
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196 fonts than your distribution normally provides, you must install them
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198 number of free Unicode fonts.
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202 Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by default;
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203 they include the files that you need to run Emacs, but not those you
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205 and graphics libraries, you may need to install the `X development'
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206 package(s), and development versions of the jpeg, png, etc. packages.
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208 The names of the packages that you need varies according to the
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209 GNU/Linux distribution that you use, and the options that you want to
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210 configure Emacs with. On Debian-based systems, you can install all the
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211 packages needed to build the installed version of Emacs with a command
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212 like `apt-get build-dep emacs23'.
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218 see msdos/INSTALL. For later versions of MS Windows, see the file
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219 nt/INSTALL. For GNUstep and Mac OS X, see nextstep/INSTALL.)
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222 a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
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223 least 2.8 MB and can reach 100 MB or more. If the swapping space is
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224 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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225 loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when
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226 running the final dumped Emacs. (This should not be an issue
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227 on any recent system.)
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229 Building Emacs requires about 230 MB of disk space (including the
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231 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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232 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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233 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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234 then the installation procedure momentarily requires 230+120 MB.
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236 2) In the unlikely event that `configure' does not detect your system
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237 type correctly, consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what --host, --build
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238 options you should pass to `configure'. That file also offers hints
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239 for getting around some possible installation problems.
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241 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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242 or in a separate directory.
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244 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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245 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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247 ./configure [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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249 If `configure' cannot determine your system type, try again
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250 specifying the proper --build, --host options explicitly.
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252 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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253 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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254 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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256 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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257 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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258 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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259 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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260 Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also
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261 accept a list of directories, separated with colons.
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263 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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264 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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265 TOOLKIT is `gtk' (the default), `athena', or `motif' (`yes' and
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266 `lucid' are synonyms for `athena'). On some systems, it does not work
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267 to use a toolkit with shared libraries. A free implementation of
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268 Motif, called LessTif, is available from <http://www.lesstif.org>.
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269 Compiling with LessTif or Motif causes a standard File Selection
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270 Dialog to pop up when you invoke file commands with the mouse. You
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308 systems which support that.
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310 Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
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319 PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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338 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation itself.
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339 It just creates the files that influence those things:
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340 `./Makefile' in the top-level directory and several subdirectories;
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341 and `./src/config.h'. For details on exactly what it does, see the
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347 disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. `configure'
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357 available when you know they are, look at the `config.log' file for
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359 whether these features are supported. Typically, some test fails
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361 libraries, or some macro-processor definition in the system headers.
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363 Some tests might fail because the compiler should look in special
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366 `configure' and the build process which follows it to do that by
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367 setting the variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, CPP and CC
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369 preprocessor, CPPFLAGS lists the options passed to it, CFLAGS are
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371 libraries to link against, and CC is the command which invokes the
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372 compiler. By default, gcc is used if available.
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378 CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
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380 (this is all one long line). This tells `configure' to instruct the
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387 For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' uses
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388 pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed.
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395 ./configure
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408 where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
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409 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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411 To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
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412 that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.
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420 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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427 news-inews-program.
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431 variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are
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442 If you set load-path to a different value in site-init.el or
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443 site-load.el, Emacs will use *precisely* that value when it starts up
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444 again. If you do this, you are on your own!
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446 The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not
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453 building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
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454 named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
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455 copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
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456 directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
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458 Or you can "install" the executable and the other files into their
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459 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
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460 are installed in the following directories:
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462 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
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463 `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',
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464 `grep-changelog', and `rcs-checkin'.
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466 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
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468 you are installing, like `23.1' or `23.2'. Since the
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469 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
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473 make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version.
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474
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475 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
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476 file, and other architecture-independent files Emacs
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477 might need while running.
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479 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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480 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to
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481 run themselves.
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482 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
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483 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the value
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484 deduced by the `configure' program to identify the
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485 architecture and operating system of your machine,
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486 like `i686-pc-linux-gnu' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since
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488 operating system, and architecture in use, including
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489 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
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490 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
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491 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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492 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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493 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
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495 `/usr/local/share/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs,
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496 known as "info files". Many other GNU programs are
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497 documented using info files as well, so this directory
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498 stands apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
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500 `/usr/local/share/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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503 Any version of Emacs, whether installed or not, also looks for Lisp
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504 files in these directories.
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506 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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507 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
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508
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509 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
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510 files installed for all Emacs versions.
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511
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512 When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
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513 in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in
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514 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
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515 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
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516
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518 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
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519 for its Lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of
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521 information on this.
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524 /usr/local/share/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the
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525 Emacs info files.
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526
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528 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
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529 to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe.
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531 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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532 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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533 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
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534 configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all
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535 of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
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536 unneeded files in the leim subdirectories of your site's lisp
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537 directory (usually /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
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538
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541 MAKE VARIABLES
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543 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
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544 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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545 command line. For example, if you type
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547 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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549 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
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550 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
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551 `/usr/local/bin'.
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552
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553 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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555 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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556 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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557
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558 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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559 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
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560 defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following
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561 subdirectories under `datadir':
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562 - `emacs/VERSION/lisp', containing the Emacs Lisp library, and
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563 - `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the tutorials, DOC file, etc.
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564 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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565 like `23.1' or `23.2'. Since these files vary from one version
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566 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
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567 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
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568 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
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569 unavailable while installing a new version.
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570
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571 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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572 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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573 We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
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574 - `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
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575 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
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576 themselves.
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577 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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578 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the value deduced by the
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579 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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580 system of your machine, like `i686-pc-linux-gnu' or `sparc-sun-sunos'.
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581 Since these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
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582 operating system, and architecture in use, including the
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583 configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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584 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating
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585 systems installed at the same time; this is useful for sites
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586 at which different kinds of machines share the file system
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587 Emacs is installed on.
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589 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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590 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/share/info'.
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592 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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593 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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594 `/usr/local/share/man/man1'.
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596 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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597 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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598 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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599 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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600 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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601 by default.
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603 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
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604 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
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605 By including
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606 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
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607 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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608 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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609 directories under that path.
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610
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611 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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612 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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613 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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614
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615 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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616 GNU software; the following variable is specific to Emacs.
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617
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618 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
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619 files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
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620 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
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621 see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
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623
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624 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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625 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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626 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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627 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
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628 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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629 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
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630 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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631
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632 The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/epaths.h,
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633 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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634 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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635 before you run `make'.
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636
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637 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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638 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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639 when running make in the subdirectories.
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641
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642 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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643
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644 This should not be necessary and is not recommended. Instead of
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645 running the `configure' program, you have to perform the following steps.
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646
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647 1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'.
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649 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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650 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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651 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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652 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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653 `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include
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654 the appropriate system and architecture description files.
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655
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656 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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657 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
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658 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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659 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files.
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661 3) Create `Makefile' files in various directories from the
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662 corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard, just a matter
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663 of editing in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs.
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665 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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666 program. You need at least the version of autoconf specified in the
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667 AC_PREREQ(...) command to rebuild `configure' from `configure.in'.
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669 BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
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670
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671 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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672 the following steps.
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674 1) Run `make epaths-force' in the top directory. This produces
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675 `./src/epaths.h' from the template file `./src/epaths.in', changing
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676 the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
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678 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
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679 executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `make-docfile' and
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680 `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others.
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682 3) Go to directory `./src' and run `make'. This refers to files in
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683 the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
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684 `../lib-src'.
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686 This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
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687 which has another name that contains a version number.
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688 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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690 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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691 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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692 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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693 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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694 file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs version.
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697 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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699 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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700 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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703 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/epaths.h'.
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705 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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706 - The programs `fakemail', `hexl', `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log',
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707 and `vcdiff' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
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708 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
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709 are intended to be run by users; they are handled below.
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710 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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712 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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713 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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714
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715 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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716 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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717 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
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718 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
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719 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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721
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722 3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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723 in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
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724 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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725 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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726 of installing different versions.
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727
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728 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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729
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730 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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731 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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732 intended for users to run.
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733
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734 5) Copy the man pages in `./doc/man' into the appropriate man directory.
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735
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736 6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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737 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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738 the source on line for debugging.
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739
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740
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741 PROBLEMS
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742
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743 See the file `./etc/PROBLEMS' for a list of various problems sometimes
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744 encountered, and what to do about them.
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745
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746 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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747
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748 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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749 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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750 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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751 (at your option) any later version.
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752
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753 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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754 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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755 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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756 GNU General Public License for more details.
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757
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758 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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759 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.