Mercurial > emacs
changeset 83208:e318dfc2edc6
README updates.
git-archimport-id: lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-248
| author | Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:59:19 +0000 |
| parents | 4df500c93e1d |
| children | c06211125947 |
| files | README.multi-tty |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README.multi-tty Mon Sep 20 09:41:18 2004 +0000 +++ b/README.multi-tty Mon Sep 20 13:59:19 2004 +0000 @@ -58,16 +58,15 @@ development trunk to occur sometime during next year (2005), after the merge of the Unicode branch. -Please let me know if you find any bugs in this branch. +Tested on GNU/Linux, Solaris 8, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Please let me +know if you succeed or fail to use it on other platforms---I'll have a +few tricky test cases for you. Known problems: * Mac, Windows and DOS support is broken, probably doesn't even compile -- this will be solved later. - * Tested on GNU/Linux, Solaris 8, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. - - HOW TO GET THE BRANCH --------------------- @@ -75,14 +74,14 @@ Retrieving the latest version of the branch: - tla register-archive lorentey@elte.hu--2004 http://lorentey.hu/arch/2004/ + tla register-archive http://lorentey.hu/arch/2004/ tla get lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty <directory> This incantation uses my private archive mirror that is hosted on a relatively low-bandwidth site; if you are outside Hungary, you will probably want to you use the Arch supermirror instead: - tla register-archive lorentey@elte.hu--2004 http://mirrors.gnuarch.org/lorentey@elte.hu--2004/ + tla register-archive http://mirrors.gnuarch.org/lorentey@elte.hu--2004/ tla get lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty <directory> (I use a recent tla development snapshot, but any of the released @@ -105,19 +104,27 @@ http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.html -HOW TO COMPILE --------------- +COMPILATION +----------- The multi-tty branch is compiled the same way as Emacs itself: + make maintainer-clean # (If you have compiled Emacs before) + ./configure <your favourite options> make bootstrap make install -HOW TO TEST IT --------------- +If you have strange compilation errors, they may be caused by old +*.elc files that are left over from an earlier bootstrap. The `make +maintainer-clean' target deletes them, so it is a good idea to run +that before reporting a bug. (Emacs requires a clean recompilation +after certain kinds of source code changes.) -To try out the multi-tty branch start up the Emacs server with the +TESTING +------- + +To test the multi-tty branch, start up the Emacs server with the following commands: emacs @@ -141,7 +148,8 @@ This is work in progress, and probably full of bugs. You should always run emacs from gdb, so that you'll have a live instance to -debug if something goes wrong. Please send me your bug reports. +debug if something goes wrong. Please send me +(multi-tty@lists.fnord.hu) your bug reports. TIPS & TRICKS ------------- @@ -262,9 +270,9 @@ THANKS ------ -The following is an (incomplete) list of people who have contributed -to the project by testing, submitting patches, bug reports, and -suggestions. Thanks! +The following is a (sadly incomplete) list of people who have +contributed to the project by testing, submitting patches, bug +reports, and suggestions. Thanks! ARISAWA Akihiro <ari at mbf dot ocn dot ne dot jp> Han Boetes <han at mijncomputer dot nl> @@ -294,6 +302,11 @@ See arch logs. +* * * + +(The rest of this file consists of my development notes and as such it +is probably not very interesting for anyone else.) + THINGS TO DO ------------