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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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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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14 and that any new or changed statements about the activities
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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 of its
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24 large size. This file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz, with the same
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25 version number as Emacs, and it unpacks into the directory
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26 emacs-M.N/leim. Thus, if you unpack it in the same directory where
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30 If you have already unpacked the Leim tar file into a subdirectory of
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31 the Emacs sources, building and installing Emacs automatically
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32 installs the input method support as well. If you unpack the Leim tar
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33 file into the Emacs sources after building and installing Emacs, just
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34 build Emacs again and install it again.
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36 * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
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38 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
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39 order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
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40 character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
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41 it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If some
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45 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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46 in the intlfonts/README file.
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49 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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51 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search
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52 for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.)
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54 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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56 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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57 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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61 Building Emacs requires about 70 Mb of disk space (including the Emacs
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62 sources). Once installed, Emacs occupies about 35 Mb in the file
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63 system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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64 libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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65 the building and installation take place in different directories,
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68 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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69 give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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72 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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75 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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76 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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78 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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80 The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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84 `configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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88 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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89 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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90 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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92 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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93 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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94 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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96 Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also
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99 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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100 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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101 TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
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102 `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with
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103 shared libraries.
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105 The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
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106 compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify
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107 `--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search
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110 If you want the Emacs mail reader RMAIL to read mail from a POP
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111 server, you must specify `--with-pop'. This provides support for the
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112 POP3 protocol; older versions are not supported. For
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113 Kerberos-authenticated POP add `--with-kerberos', for Hesiod support
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114 add `--with-hesiod'. These options enable Emacs to use POP; whether
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115 Emacs uses POP is controlled by individual users--see the Rmail
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116 chapter of the Emacs manual.
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118 The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
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119 should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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120 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
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121 (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
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123 (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.27').
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125 PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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129 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
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130 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
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131 files, like executables and utility programs. If specified,
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132 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and
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133 - The architecture-dependent files go in
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134 EXECDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION.
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135 EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs.
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137 For example, the command
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139 ./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11
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284 `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
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307 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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319 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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327 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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337 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
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345 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
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352 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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354 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
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355 of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
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356 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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357 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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358 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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359 different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
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362 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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363 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
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365 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
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366 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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369 `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
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371 digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
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375 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
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377 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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378 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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380 by default.
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386 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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387 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
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388 directories under that path.
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390 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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391 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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392 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
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403 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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404 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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405 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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407 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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409 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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412 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
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413 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
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417 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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429 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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430 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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431 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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438 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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456 Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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473 Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
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475 It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
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476 current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
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477 all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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478 emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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479 file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs
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480 version.
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485 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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486 directory of the Emacs distribution.
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488 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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489 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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493 `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
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497 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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500 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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502 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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503 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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504 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
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505 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
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506 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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507 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
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511 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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512 `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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513 of installing different versions.
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514
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515 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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517 4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
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518 `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
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524 6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
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525 used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
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526 the source on line for debugging.
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528
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529 PROBLEMS
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531 See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
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532 problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
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535 Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
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536
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537 To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
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538 (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
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539 config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
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540 file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
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541 the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
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542 (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
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543 if any of them isn't found.
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544
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545 If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
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546 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
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547 sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
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548 unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
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549 DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
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550 the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
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551 doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
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552 the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
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553 DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
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554 DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
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555 a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
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556 files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
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557 You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
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558 your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
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559 to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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560
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561 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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562 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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563 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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564 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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565 into problems during the build process.)
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566
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567 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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568 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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569 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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570 support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting
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571 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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572 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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573 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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574 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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575 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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576 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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577 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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579 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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581 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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583 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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584 your system.)
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586 When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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587 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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588 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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590 config msdos
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591 make install
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593 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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594 directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a
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595 sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
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596 /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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597 /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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598 subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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599 subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. The bin
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600 subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory
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601 includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful
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602 if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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604 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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605 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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606 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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607 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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608 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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609 the location of the `info' directory).
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611 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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612 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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613 work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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615 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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616 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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617 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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618 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp version 2.01 have these bugs
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619 fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.