Mercurial > emacs
changeset 66362:1a4e1d124beb
Replace `Mac OS 8/9' with `Mac OS Classic'. Add
`FIXME' to descriptions about Metrowerks CodeWarrior. Remove
obsolete description about 512MB limit and icon on Mac OS Classic.
Add description about flags for experimental features.
| author | YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:53:00 +0000 |
| parents | 856c54127427 |
| children | ae5c2b812667 |
| files | mac/INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mac/INSTALL Mon Oct 24 00:10:02 2005 +0000 +++ b/mac/INSTALL Mon Oct 24 00:53:00 2005 +0000 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9 AND MAC OS X -*- outline -*- +* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic AND MAC OS X -*- outline -*- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -157,10 +157,11 @@ For usage of other options, use the --help option. -* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9 +* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic -You can use either Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 6 or MPW-GM (Aug. 2001) -to build Emacs. MPW-GM can be downloaded free of charge from Apple. +FIXME: You can use either Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 6 or MPW-GM +(Aug. 2001) to build Emacs. MPW-GM can be downloaded free of charge +from Apple. In either case, you will need MPW-GM to build the make-docfile utility and to generate the doc string file DOC. @@ -170,14 +171,14 @@ Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to "Never". Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted. -(Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2 +FIXME: (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/GNU-fonts.smi.bin To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to ...:emacs:mac: and build the target Emacs of the make file -makefile.mpw. I.e., execute the commands +makefile.MPW. I.e., execute the commands make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript Emacs.MakeScript @@ -186,47 +187,38 @@ non-Carbon version can also be created by replacing all the occurrences of `Emacs' above with `NonCarbon'. Not that the non-Carbon version does not support some features such as file -dialogs, drag-and-drop, and unicode menus. +dialogs, drag-and-drop, and Unicode menus. -To build Emacs using CodeWarrior, start up the CodeWarrior IDE, choose -File->Import Project... and select the file cw6-mcp.xml. When +FIXME: To build Emacs using CodeWarrior, start up the CodeWarrior IDE, +choose File->Import Project... and select the file cw6-mcp.xml. When prompted to save the project, navigate to same directory as the file cw6-mcp.xml, name the project emacs-cw6.mcp, and save it there. Then choose Project->Make. Note that this does not build the DOC file. To do so, use MPW and build the target "Doc" in makefile.MPW. -Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs CW or Emacs MPW) can be -launched where it is created. +FIXME: Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs CW or Emacs MPW) can +be launched where it is created. -To build an optimized version of Emacs in CodeWarrior, change the -value in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->Global Optimization +FIXME: To build an optimized version of Emacs in CodeWarrior, change +the value in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->Global Optimization dialog. To build a version for profiling, check the Profiler Information box in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->PPC Processor dialog and include the Profiler PPC.Lib library. * NOTES -Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 10.4. +Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2 (but +only tested on 9.2.2), and Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.4. You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and intermediate files. -It will not run on machines running Mac OS 8/9 with more than 512 MB -of physical or virtual memory. It does not have this restriction when -it is run under Mac OS X. But the usual 128MB buffer limit of a -32-bit Emacs still exists. - -Under Mac OS 8/9, there is no support for building the LEIM directory. -However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform and -transferred to the Mac. - -On Mac OS 8/9, to use the same icon as when Emacs is built on Windows -NT, define GNU_ICON in mac/src/Emacs.r. Currently Emacs uses a -generic application icon on the Mac OS X. A better looking one is -coming soon. +Under Mac OS Classic, there is no support for building the LEIM +directory. However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform +and transferred to the Mac. On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with -system sofware updates possibly overwriting the distribution. If this +system software updates possibly overwriting the distribution. If this is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please use /usr/local as the prefix for installation. @@ -237,4 +229,16 @@ with PowerPC builds of Emacs; you will have to recompile for Intel. Therefore, builds of Emacs are architecture specific. +There are some compile-time flags that enable experimental features. +Please use them at your own risk after reading the corresponding +threads in the emacs-devel@gnu.org archive. + + USE_ATSUI: Enable ATSUI (Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging) + support. Available on Mac OS 9/Carbon and Mac OS X. + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-10/msg00005.html + + SELECT_USE_CFSOCKET: Avoid polling in sys_select (in src/mac.c). + Available on Mac OS X. + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-12/msg00789.html + Enjoy!