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eaa91904 | 2 | Copyright (c) 1992, 1994 Free software Foundation, Inc. |
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18 | BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: | |
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20 | (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MSDOS, see below; search | |
21 | for MSDOG. For Windows NT or Windows 95, see the file nt/INSTALL.) | |
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22 | |
23 | 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle | |
24 | a program whose pure code is 900k bytes and whose data area is at | |
25 | least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is | |
26 | insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l | |
bde335e3 | 27 | loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when |
42db5687 | 28 | running the final dumped Emacs. |
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30 | Building Emacs requires about 70 Mb of disk space (including the Emacs |
31 | sources). Once installed, Emacs occupies about 35 Mb in the file | |
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32 | system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp |
33 | libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If | |
34 | the building and installation take place in different directories, | |
2d475b5f | 35 | then the installation procedure momentarily requires 70+35 Mb. |
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36 | |
37 | 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should | |
f40423fa | 38 | give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for |
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39 | getting around some possible installation problems. |
40 | ||
41 | 3) In the top directory of the Emacs distribution, run the program | |
42 | `configure' as follows: | |
43 | ||
44 | ./configure CONFIGURATION-NAME [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ... | |
45 | ||
46 | The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given | |
47 | in `./etc/MACHINES'. If omitted, `configure' will try to guess your | |
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48 | system type; if it cannot, you must find the appropriate configuration |
49 | name in `./etc/MACHINES' and specify it explicitly. | |
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51 | If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this |
52 | option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your | |
53 | system has X, and arrange to use it if present. | |
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54 | |
55 | The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build | |
56 | process where the compiler should look for the include files and | |
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57 | object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure' |
58 | is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X | |
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59 | Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also |
60 | accept a list of directories, separated with colons. | |
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62 | To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you |
63 | configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where | |
64 | TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for | |
65 | `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with | |
66 | shared libraries. | |
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67 | |
68 | The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should | |
69 | compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify | |
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70 | `--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search |
71 | for GCC in your path, and use it if present. | |
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73 | If you want the Emacs mail reader RMAIL to read mail from a POP |
74 | server, you must specify `--with-pop'. This provides support for the | |
75 | POP3 protocol; older versions are not supported. For | |
76 | Kerberos-authenticated POP add `--with-kerberos', for Hesiod support | |
77 | add `--with-hesiod'. These options enable Emacs to use POP; whether | |
78 | Emacs uses POP is controlled by individual users--see the Rmail | |
79 | chapter of the Emacs manual. | |
80 | ||
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81 | You can build Emacs for several different machine types from a single |
82 | source directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that | |
83 | supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. Make separate | |
84 | build directories for the different configuration types, and in each | |
85 | one, run the Emacs `configure' script. `configure' looks for the | |
86 | Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in. | |
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88 | The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process |
89 | should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'. | |
90 | - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin | |
91 | (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise). | |
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92 | - The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/share/emacs/VERSION |
93 | (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.27'). | |
a0e671c7 | 94 | - The architecture-dependent files go in |
f40423fa | 95 | PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION |
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96 | (where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like mips-dec-ultrix4.2), |
97 | unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise. | |
98 | ||
99 | The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate | |
100 | portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific | |
101 | files, like executables and utility programs. If specified, | |
102 | - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and | |
103 | - The architecture-dependent files go in | |
f40423fa | 104 | EXECDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION. |
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105 | EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs. |
106 | ||
107 | For example, the command | |
108 | ||
109 | ./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11 | |
110 | ||
111 | configures Emacs to build for a DECstation running Ultrix, with | |
112 | support for the X11 window system. | |
113 | ||
f40423fa | 114 | `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation |
a0e671c7 | 115 | itself. It just creates the files that influence those things: |
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116 | `./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile', |
117 | `lwlib/Makefile', `src/Makefile', and `./src/config.h'. For details | |
118 | on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY | |
119 | HAND', below. | |
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120 | |
121 | When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and | |
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122 | creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the |
123 | same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after | |
124 | disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. `configure' | |
125 | also creates a file `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests | |
126 | to make reconfiguring faster, and a file `config.log' containing compiler | |
127 | output (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). You can give | |
128 | `configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the | |
129 | tests in FILE instead of `config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to | |
130 | disable caching, for debugging `configure'. | |
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131 | |
132 | The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the | |
133 | distribution, but using `configure' is supposed to be simpler. See | |
134 | the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the | |
135 | configuration yourself. | |
136 | ||
137 | 4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right | |
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138 | for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with Emacs |
139 | Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el | |
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140 | itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES, |
141 | rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example, | |
142 | ||
143 | (setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews") | |
144 | ||
145 | is how you would override the default value of the variable | |
146 | news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews"). | |
147 | ||
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148 | Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the |
149 | variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the | |
150 | variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are | |
151 | doing, you'll make a mistake. | |
152 | ||
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153 | 5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs |
154 | Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out. Use | |
155 | site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their | |
156 | documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see | |
bde335e3 | 157 | src/Makefile.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all |
eaa91904 | 158 | else, use site-init.el. |
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160 | If you set load-path to a different value in site-init.el or |
161 | site-load.el, Emacs will use *precisely* that value when it starts up | |
162 | again. If you do this, you are on your own! | |
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164 | Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must |
165 | not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look | |
166 | something up in the system's password and user information database. | |
167 | See `./PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects. | |
168 | ||
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169 | The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not |
170 | need to create them if you have nothing to put in them. | |
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171 | |
172 | 6) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may | |
173 | wish to add to various termcap entries. The files `./etc/termcap.ucb' | |
174 | and `./etc/termcap.dat' may already contain appropriately-modified | |
175 | entries. | |
176 | ||
177 | 7) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish | |
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178 | building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is |
179 | named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without | |
180 | copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling | |
181 | directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info. | |
182 | ||
183 | Or you can "install" the executable and the other Emacs into their | |
184 | installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files | |
185 | are installed in the following directories: | |
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186 | |
187 | `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run - | |
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188 | `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient', |
189 | and `rcs-checkin'. | |
a0e671c7 | 190 | |
f40423fa | 191 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library; |
a0e671c7 | 192 | `VERSION' stands for the number of the Emacs version |
f40423fa | 193 | you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.27'. Since the |
cdb49480 | 194 | Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to |
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195 | another, including the version number in the path |
196 | allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed | |
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197 | at the same time; in particular, you don't have to |
198 | make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version. | |
a0e671c7 | 199 | |
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200 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp |
201 | files installed for Emacs version VERSION only. | |
202 | ||
203 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp | |
204 | files installed for all Emacs versions. | |
205 | ||
206 | When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files | |
207 | in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in | |
208 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in | |
209 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'. | |
a0e671c7 | 210 | |
f40423fa | 211 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC |
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212 | file, the `yow' database, and other |
213 | architecture-independent files Emacs might need while | |
214 | running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'. | |
215 | ||
f40423fa | 216 | `/usr/local/com/emacs/lock' contains files indicating who is editing |
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217 | what, so Emacs can detect editing clashes between |
218 | users. | |
219 | ||
f40423fa | 220 | `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable |
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221 | programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to |
222 | run themselves. | |
223 | `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are | |
224 | installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument | |
225 | you gave to the `configure' program to identify the | |
226 | architecture and operating system of your machine, | |
227 | like `mips-dec-ultrix' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since | |
228 | these files are specific to the version of Emacs, | |
229 | operating system, and architecture in use, including | |
230 | the configuration name in the path allows you to have | |
231 | several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and | |
232 | operating systems installed at the same time; this is | |
233 | useful for sites at which different kinds of machines | |
234 | share the file system Emacs is installed on. | |
235 | ||
236 | `/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as | |
237 | "info files". Many other GNU programs are documented | |
238 | using info files as well, so this directory stands | |
239 | apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories. | |
240 | ||
241 | `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed | |
242 | in `/usr/local/bin'. | |
243 | ||
244 | If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to | |
245 | install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search | |
cdb49480 | 246 | for its Lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of |
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247 | the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more |
248 | information on this. | |
249 | ||
250 | 8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually | |
251 | /usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs | |
252 | info files. | |
253 | ||
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f40423fa | 255 | then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid |
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256 | to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe. |
257 | ||
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258 | 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from |
259 | the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files | |
260 | that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different | |
261 | configuration), type `make distclean'. | |
262 | ||
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263 | |
264 | ||
265 | MAKE VARIABLES | |
266 | ||
267 | You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data | |
268 | files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make' | |
269 | command line. For example, if you type | |
270 | ||
271 | make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin | |
272 | ||
273 | the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs | |
274 | executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not | |
275 | `/usr/local/bin'. | |
276 | ||
277 | Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set. | |
278 | ||
279 | `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can | |
280 | run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin. | |
281 | ||
282 | `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent | |
283 | read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it | |
908477d9 | 284 | defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following |
a0e671c7 | 285 | subdirectories under `datadir': |
cdb49480 | 286 | - `emacs/VERSION/lisp', containing the Emacs Lisp library, and |
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287 | - `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the Emacs tutorial, the DOC |
288 | file, and the `yow' database. | |
289 | `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing, | |
290 | like `18.59' or `19.0'. Since these files vary from one version | |
291 | of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path | |
292 | allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the | |
293 | same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs | |
294 | unavailable while installing a new version. | |
295 | ||
908477d9 | 296 | `sharedstatedir' indicates where to put architecture-independent data files |
a0e671c7 | 297 | that Emacs modifies while it runs; it defaults to |
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298 | /usr/local/com. We create the following |
299 | subdirectories under `sharedstatedir': | |
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300 | - `emacs/lock', containing files indicating who is editing |
301 | what, so Emacs can detect editing clashes between | |
302 | users. | |
303 | ||
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304 | `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that |
305 | Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'. | |
306 | We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir': | |
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307 | - `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable |
308 | programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run | |
309 | themselves. | |
310 | `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing, | |
311 | and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the | |
312 | `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating | |
313 | system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or | |
314 | `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version | |
315 | of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including | |
316 | the configuration name in the path allows you to have several | |
317 | versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems | |
318 | installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which | |
319 | different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is | |
320 | installed on. | |
321 | ||
322 | `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with | |
323 | Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'. | |
324 | ||
325 | `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its | |
326 | utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to | |
327 | `/usr/local/man/man1'. | |
328 | ||
329 | `manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with. | |
330 | It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate | |
331 | digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default | |
332 | values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be | |
333 | installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'. | |
334 | ||
335 | `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead, | |
336 | its value is used to determine the defaults for all the | |
337 | architecture-independent path variables - `datadir', | |
908477d9 | 338 | `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is |
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339 | `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it |
340 | by default. | |
341 | ||
342 | For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software | |
343 | under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'. | |
344 | By including | |
345 | `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft' | |
346 | in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process | |
347 | to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate | |
348 | directories under that path. | |
349 | ||
350 | `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead | |
351 | determines the default values for the architecture-dependent | |
908477d9 | 352 | path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'. |
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353 | |
354 | The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all | |
355 | GNU software; here are some variables specific to Emacs. | |
356 | ||
cdb49480 | 357 | `lispdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects its Lisp library. |
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358 | Its default value, based on `datadir' (see above), is |
359 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' (where `VERSION' is as | |
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360 | described above). |
361 | ||
cdb49480 | 362 | `locallisppath' indicates where Emacs should search for Lisp files |
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363 | specific to your site. It should be a colon-separated list of |
364 | directories; Emacs checks them in order before checking | |
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365 | `lispdir'. Its default value, based on `datadir' (see above), is |
366 | `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp'. | |
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367 | |
368 | `lisppath' is the complete list of directories Emacs should search for | |
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369 | its Lisp files; its default value is the concatenation of |
370 | `locallisppath' and `lispdir'. It should be a colon-separated | |
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371 | list of directories; Emacs checks them in the order they |
372 | appear. | |
373 | ||
374 | `etcdir' indicates where Emacs should install and expect the rest of | |
375 | its architecture-independent data, like the tutorial, DOC | |
376 | file, and yow database. Its default value, based on `datadir' | |
2d475b5f | 377 | (which see), is `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc'. |
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378 | |
379 | `lockdir' indicates the directory where Emacs keeps track of its | |
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380 | locking information. Its default value, based on |
381 | `sharedstatedir' (which see), is `/usr/local/com/emacs/lock'. | |
a0e671c7 | 382 | |
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383 | `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable |
384 | files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while | |
385 | running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which | |
386 | see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' | |
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387 | (where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above). |
388 | ||
389 | Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time | |
390 | you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build | |
391 | emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you | |
392 | must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the | |
393 | settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top | |
394 | directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases | |
395 | `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'. | |
396 | ||
397 | The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the | |
398 | Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them | |
399 | when running make in the subdirectories. | |
400 | ||
401 | ||
402 | CONFIGURATION BY HAND | |
403 | ||
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404 | Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the |
405 | following steps. | |
a0e671c7 | 406 | |
bde335e3 | 407 | 1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'. |
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408 | |
409 | 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should | |
410 | use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to | |
411 | see which operating system and architecture description files from | |
412 | `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit | |
413 | `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include | |
414 | the appropriate system and architecture description files. | |
415 | ||
416 | 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If | |
417 | you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h | |
418 | files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by | |
419 | changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to | |
420 | redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'. | |
421 | ||
c9da8016 | 422 | 3) Create src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile from the corresponding |
bde335e3 | 423 | `Makefile.in' files. First copy `Makefile.in' to `Makefile.c', |
94684a2e | 424 | then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs, |
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425 | and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure' |
426 | that run cpp to construct `Makefile'. | |
a0e671c7 | 427 | |
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428 | 4) Create `Makefile' files in various other directories |
429 | from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard, | |
430 | just a matter of substitution. | |
a0e671c7 | 431 | |
a0e671c7 | 432 | The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf' |
f40423fa | 433 | program. You need version 2.0 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild `configure'. |
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434 | |
435 | BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND | |
436 | ||
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437 | Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs |
438 | the following steps. | |
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439 | |
440 | 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces | |
bde335e3 | 441 | `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.in', changing |
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442 | the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'. |
443 | ||
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444 | 2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates |
445 | executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile' | |
446 | and `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others. | |
a0e671c7 | 447 | |
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448 | 3) Go to directory `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in |
449 | the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and | |
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450 | `../lib-src'. |
451 | ||
452 | This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs, | |
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453 | which has another name that contains a version number. |
454 | Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place. | |
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455 | |
456 | It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the | |
457 | current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for | |
458 | all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new | |
459 | emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC | |
460 | file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs | |
461 | version. | |
462 | ||
463 | ||
464 | INSTALLATION BY HAND | |
465 | ||
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466 | The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main |
467 | directory of the Emacs distribution. | |
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468 | |
469 | 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables | |
470 | in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'. | |
471 | ||
472 | Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied. | |
eaa91904 | 473 | - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl', |
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474 | `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup', |
475 | and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied. | |
476 | - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin' | |
a0e671c7 | 477 | are intended to be run by users; they are handled below. |
3ae888e8 | 478 | - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were |
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479 | used in building Emacs, and are not needed any more. |
480 | - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into | |
481 | a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them. | |
482 | ||
483 | 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in | |
484 | `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the | |
485 | destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you | |
486 | probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs | |
487 | distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir' | |
488 | file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info. | |
489 | ||
490 | 3) Create a directory for Emacs to use for clash detection, named as | |
491 | indicated by the PATH_LOCK macro in `./src/paths.h'. | |
492 | ||
493 | 4) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory | |
494 | in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name | |
495 | `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named | |
496 | `/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way | |
497 | of installing different versions. | |
498 | ||
499 | You can delete `./src/temacs'. | |
500 | ||
501 | 5) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and | |
c9da8016 | 502 | `rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are |
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503 | intended for users to run. |
504 | ||
505 | 6) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the | |
506 | appropriate man directories. | |
507 | ||
508 | 7) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not | |
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509 | used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep |
510 | the source on line for debugging. | |
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511 | |
512 | ||
513 | PROBLEMS | |
514 | ||
515 | See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various | |
516 | problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them. | |
517 | ||
518 | ||
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519 | Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS) |
520 | ||
eaa91904 | 521 | To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG |
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522 | (also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in |
523 | config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The | |
524 | file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find | |
525 | the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step | |
526 | (see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue | |
527 | if any of them isn't found. | |
528 | ||
529 | If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system | |
530 | which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make | |
531 | sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you | |
532 | unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with | |
533 | DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in | |
534 | the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that | |
535 | doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace; | |
536 | the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with | |
537 | DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly. | |
538 | DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with | |
539 | a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts | |
540 | files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way. | |
541 | You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of | |
542 | your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set | |
543 | to `n' during both unpacking and compiling. | |
544 | ||
545 | (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs | |
546 | distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have | |
547 | done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created | |
548 | by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running | |
549 | into problems during the build process.) | |
550 | ||
551 | It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file | |
552 | names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during | |
553 | compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always | |
554 | support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting | |
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555 | of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled |
556 | and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need | |
557 | to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info | |
558 | directories are called by their original long names as found in the | |
559 | distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually, | |
560 | or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with | |
561 | djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment. | |
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562 | |
563 | To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command: | |
564 | ||
565 | djtar -x emacs.tgz | |
566 | ||
567 | (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on | |
568 | your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names | |
e60ea278 | 569 | collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS, |
f32b5445 | 570 | or if you have set LFN=n on Windows 95, djtar will ask you to supply |
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571 | alternate names for these files; you can just press `Enter' when this |
572 | happens (which makes djtar skip these files) because they aren't | |
573 | required for MS-DOS. | |
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574 | |
575 | When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be | |
576 | created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install | |
577 | Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands: | |
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578 | |
579 | config msdos | |
580 | make install | |
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582 | Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src |
583 | directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a | |
584 | sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory | |
585 | /emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and | |
586 | /emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the | |
587 | subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only | |
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588 | subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. The bin |
589 | subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory | |
590 | includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful | |
591 | if you run Emacs under MS Windows. | |
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592 | |
593 | Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in | |
594 | ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the | |
595 | Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the | |
596 | environment variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc | |
597 | and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory. | |
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599 | MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such |
600 | as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not | |
601 | work. Synchronous subprocesses do work. | |
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602 | |
603 | The current version of djgpp 2.0 (as of August 1996) has two bugs that | |
604 | affect Emacs. We've included corrected versions of two files from | |
605 | djgpp in the msdos subdirectory: is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work | |
606 | around the bugs, compile these files and link them into temacs. The | |
607 | next version of djgpp should have these bugs fixed. |