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1This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
2
3For each system and machine, we give the configuration name you should
4pass to the `configure' script to prepare to build Emacs for that
5system/machine.
6
7The `configure' script uses the configuration name to decide which
8machine and operating system description files `src/config.h' should
9include. The machine description files are all in `src/m', and have
10names similar to, but not identical to, the machine names used in
11configuration names. The operating system files are all in `src/s',
12and are named similarly. See the `configure' script if you need to
13know which configuration names use which machine and operating system
14description files.
15
16If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this
17file, and then edit the `configure' script to tell it which
18configuration name(s) should select your new machine description and
19system description files.
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22Here are the configurations Emacs is intended to work with, with the
23corresponding configuration names. You can postpend version numbers
24to operating system names (i.e. sunos4.1) or architecture names (i.e.
25hppa1.1). If you leave out the version number, the `configure' script
26will configure Emacs for the latest version it knows about.
27
28Acorn RISCiX (arm-acorn-riscix1.2)
29
30 Emacs 19.29 has changes that ought to support RISCiX 1.2.
31
32 Due to a bug in the RISCiX C compiler (3.4.5), emacs must
33 be built with gcc (versions 2.5.8 onwards).
34
35 In addition, you will need GNU sed and GNU make, as the RISCiX release
36 versions of these utilities cannot cope with building emacs-19!
37
38 GNU sed should be configured with:
39
40 env 'DEFS=-Dgetopt=gnu_getopt -Dopterr=gnu_opterr -Doptind=gnu_optind \
41 -Doptarg=gnu_optarg' ./configure
42
43 GNU make (3.72+) should be configured with:
44
45 env 'CFLAGS=-Dgetopt=gnu_getopt -Dopterr=gnu_opterr -Doptind=gnu_optind \
46 -Doptarg=gnu_optarg' ./configure
47
48 Emacs may be configured to use the X toolkit, by adding --with-x-toolkit
49 to the configure command. If you do this, you will need to edit the line
50 in src/Makefile which defines LIBW (about line 59) to read:
51
52 LIBW= -lXaw_n
53
54 This ensures that the non-shared widget library is used.
55
56 It is unlikely that this version of emacs will work with RISCiX 1.1.
57
58Alliant (fx80-alliant-bsd):
59
60 18.52 worked on system version 4. Previous Emacs versions were
61 known to work on previous system versions.
62
63 If you are using older versions of their operating system, you may
64 need to edit `src/config.h' to use `m/alliant1.h' (on version 1) or
65 `m/alliant.h' (on versions 2 and 3).
66
67Alliant FX/2800 (i860-alliant-bsd)
68
69 Known to work with 19.26 and OS version 2.2, compiler version 1.3.
70
71Alpha (DEC) running OSF/1 or GNU/Linux (alpha-dec-osf1, alpha-dec-linux-gnu)
72
73 For OSF/1 (aka Digital Unix) version 4.0, update 386,
74 it is reported that you need to run configure this way:
75
76 configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
77
78 For 4.0 revision 564, and 4.0A and 4.0B, Emacs 20 seems to work
79 with no special configuration options. However, if you use GCC as
80 your compiler, you will need version 2.8.1 or later, as older
81 versions fail to build with a message "Invalid dimension for the
82 charset-ID 160".
83
84 Note that the X11 libraries on GNU/Linux systems for the Alpha are
85 said to have bugs that prevent Emacs from working with X (as of
86 November 1995). Recent releases work (July 2000).
87
88Altos 3068 (m68k-altos-sysv)
89
90 18.52 was said to work, provided you don't compile unexec.c with -O.
91
92Amdahl UTS (580-amdahl-sysv)
93
94 Small changes for 18.38 were merged in 18.39. It is mostly
95 working, but at last report a bug sometimes causes Emacs to
96 grab very large amounts of memory. No fix or explanation
97 has yet been reported. It may be possible to find this bug
98 if you find which Emacs command it happens within and then
99 run that command with a breakpoint set at malloc.
100
101 The 5.2u370 compiler is so brain damaged that it is not
102 even worth trying to use it. Success was obtained with the
103 uts native C compiler on uts version 5.2.5.
104
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105Apple PowerPC Macintosh running GNU/Linux
106
107 There are special considerations for a variety of this system which
723718ff 108 is known as the ``Yellow Dog [GNU/]Linux'': Emacs may crash during
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109 dumping. To solve this, edit the header file src/m/macppc.h in the
110 Emacs distribution, and remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives
111 which surround the following block near the end of the file:
112
113 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux ecept for Yellowdog,
114 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
115 know what's really going on here. */
116 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
117 0x10000000. */
118 #if defined __linux__
119 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
120 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
121 #endif
122 #endif
123 #endif /* 0 */
124
125 After that, reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. It should now build
126 successfully.
127
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128Apollo running X Windows (m68k-apollo-bsd)
129
130 Apollo version now supports dumping. It has been tested on SR10.3 and
131 SR10.4. It certainly requires at least SR10.0, and maybe SR10.2. Be sure
132 to build in the BSD environment.
133
134 By default, everything is compiled with the switch "-W0,-opt,2". Don't try
135 to change this to full optimization (-O). The full optimizer (in Domain CC
136 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9) generates some bad code in several modules which causes
137 the emacs window, under X, to be refreshed with each keystroke.
138
139 The configuration stuff should work for the most part. However, some Domain
140 installations may have to edit src/Makefile manually after it is created.
141 There are too many versions of both cc and X to automate this easily.
142
143 In `lib-src/Makefile', emacsclient and emacsserver compile and work fine
144 under CC 6.9. They now probably work under other versions of the compiler,
145 as well.
146
147 The Apollo Domain CC compiler will issue quite a few warning messages,
148 mostly complaining about incompatible pointers. In general, these are
149 harmless and can be ignored. If you discover otherwise, please submit a bug
150 report identifying the problem in detail.
151
152 When you try to dump emacs, you may get the message ".rwdi section needs
153 relocation." This means you are linking with some code that has compressed
154 data sections. In some cases this comes from linking with X libraries. Try
155 using shared X libraries instead. With some versions of Domain/OS this is
156 as simple as removing the "-lX11" from the LIBX line in src/Makefile.
157
158 When running the configure script, use the configuration name
159 "m68k-apollo-bsd". You will also need to use the "-with-gcc=no" and
160 "-with-x" options. Depending upon your site configuration, you may have to
161 use other configure options, as well. Examine the INSTALL file for other
162 configure options.
163
164 Check out the file 'lisp/x-apollo.el'. To use it, add
165
166 (load "x-apollo")
167
168 to your .emacs file. It provides useful default Apollo function key
169 bindings.
170
171AT&T 3b2, 3b5, 3b15, 3b20 (we32k-att-sysv)
172
173 Emacs will probably not work with certain kernel constants too small.
174
175 In param.h CDLIMIT should be at least (1L << 12) in order to allow
176 processes to write up to 2 Mbyte files. This parameter is configurable
177 by normal means in /etc/master.d/kernel; examine that file for the
178 symbol CDLIMIT or ULIMIT, and raise it by several powers of 2. Then
179 do normal kernel rebuild things via "cd /boot; mkboot -k KERNEL" and so
180 forth.
181
182 In seg.h NSEGP and STACKSEG should be at least 16 and 4 respectively
183 to allow processes with total size of up to 2Mbytes.
184 However, I'm told it is unlikely this would fail to be true.
185
186 The MAXMEM may also prevent Emacs from running. The file
187 3B-MAXMEM in this directory explains how to increase MAXMEM.
188
189 On some of these machines, you may need to define IN_SCCS_ID
190 in config.h to make Emacs work. Supposedly you can tell whether
191 this is necessary by checking something in /usr/include/sys/time.h;
192 we do not know precisely what.
193
194AT&T 7300 or 3b1 (m68k-att-sysv)
195
196 18.52 worked. If you have strange troubles with dumping
197 Emacs, delete the last few lines from `src/m/7300.h' and recompile.
198 These lines are supposed to produce a sharable executable.
199
200 `src/m/7300.h' defines SHORTNAMES because operating system versions
201 older than 3.5 did not support long symbol names. Version 3.5 does
202 support them, so you can remove the #define SHORTNAMES in that
203 version.
204
205Bull DPX/2 models 2nn or 3nn (m68k-bull-sysv3)
206
207 Minor fixes merged into 19.19, which should work with CC or GCC.
208
209 You should compile with all the POSIX stuff: undef _SYSV and define
210 _POSIX_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE and _BULL_SOURCE.
211
212 On bos2.00.45 there is a bug that makes the F_SETOWN fcntl
213 call enters in an infinite loop. F_SETOWN_BUG has been defined to avoid
214 calling it.
215
216Bull DPX/20 (rs6000-bull-bosx)
217
218 Version 19 works.
219
220Bull sps7 (m68k-bull-sysv2)
221
222 Changes partially merged in version 19, but some fixes are probably required.
223
224CCI 5/32, 6/32
225
226 See "Tahoe".
227
228Celerity (celerity-celerity-bsd4.2)
229
230 Version 18.49 worked. This configuration name is a hack, because we
231 don't know the processor used by Celerities. If someone
232 who uses a Celerity could get in touch with us, we can teach
233 config.sub a better name for the configuration.
234
235Clipper (clipper-???)
236
237 Version 19 has support for some brand of clipper system. If you
238 have successfully built Emacs 19 on some sort of clipper system, let
239 us know so we can flesh out this entry.
240
241 Note that the Orion 105 is also a clipper, but some system-related
242 parameters are different.
243
244Convex (c1-convex-bsd, c2-convex-bsd, c32-convex-bsd, c34-convex-bsd,
245 c38-convex-bsd)
246
247 Support updated and residual bugs fixed in 19.26.
248
249Cubix QBx/386 (i386-cubix-sysv)
250
251 Changes merged in 19.1. Systems before 2/A/0 may fail to compile etags.c
252 due to a compiler bug.
253
254Cydra 5 (cydra-cydrome-sysv)
255
256 18.51 worked in one version of their operating system but stopped
257 working in a newer version. This has not been fixed.
258
259Data General Aviion (m88k-dg-dgux)
260
261 19.23 works; however, the GCC provided with DGUX 5.4R3.00 fails to
262 compile src/emacs.c. GCC 2.5.8 does work.
263 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work; no word on which compiler.
264 System versions other than DGUX 5.4R3.00 have not been tested.
265
266 DGUX 5.4R3.10 works with 19.29 and 19.30.
267
268 DGUX R4.11 contains changes to the stdio internals and it doesn't work
269 with versions before 20.2 without patches. 20.2 works in interactive
270 mode but usually fails in batch mode. The problem is that using
271 stderr in the dumped emacs usually leads to a segmentation fault.
272 Only m88k has been tested.
273
274DECstation (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf)
275
276 This machine is the older Mips-based DECstation.
277 Emacs should now work on the Alpha CPU.
278
279 19.25 works on Ultrix 4.2. The 19.26 pretest was reported to work
280 on Ultrix 4.2a and on 4.4.
281
282 One user reported 19.25 did not work at all with --with-x-toolkit
283 using X11R5 patch level 10, but worked ok with X11R5 pl26.
284
285 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix.
286 Note that this is a MIPS machine.
287
288 For Ultrix versions 4.1 or earlier, you may need to define
289 SYSTEM_MALLOC in `src/m/pmax.h', because XvmsAlloc.o in libX11.a seems
290 to insist on defining malloc itself.
291
292 For Ultrix versions prior to 4.0, you may need to delete
293 the definition of START_FILES from `src/m/pmax.h'.
294
295Motorola Delta 147 (m68k-motorola-sysv)
296
297 The EMacs 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
298
299 Motorola Delta boxes running System V/68 release 3.
300 Tested on 147 board with SVR3V7, no X and gcc.
301 Tested on 167 board with SVR3V7, no X, cc, gnucc and gcc.
302 Reports say it works with X too.
303
304 The installation script chooses the compiler itself. gnucc is
305 preferred.
306
307Motorola Delta 187 (m88k-motorola-sysv,
308 m88k-motorola-sysvr4, or
309 m88k-motorola-m88kbcs)
310
311 The 19.26 pretest was reported to run on SVR3. However, if you
312 use --with-x-toolkit on svr3, you will have problems compiling some
313 files because time.h and sys/time.h get included twice.
314 One fix is to edit those files to protect against multiple inclusion.
315
316 As of version 19.13, Emacs was reported to run under SYSVr3 and SYSVr4.
317
318Dual running System V (m68k-dual-sysv)
319
320 As of 17.46, this worked except for a few changes
321 needed in unexec.c.
322
323Dual running Uniplus (m68k-dual-uniplus)
324
325 Worked, as of 17.51.
326
327Elxsi 6400 (elxsi-elxsi-sysv)
328
329 Changes for 12.0 release are in 19.1.
330 Dumping should work now.
331
332Encore machine (ns16k-encore-bsd)
333
334 This machine bizarrely uses 4.2BSD modified to use the COFF format
335 for object files. Works (as of 18.40). For the APC processor you
336 must enable two lines at the end of `src/s/umax.h', which are commented
337 out in the file as distributed.
338
339 WARNING: If you compile Emacs with the "-O" compiler switch, you
340 must also use the "-q enter_exits" switch so that all functions have
341 stack frames. Otherwise routines that call `alloca' all lose.
342
343 A kernel bug in some system versions causes input characters to be lost
344 occasionally.
345
346Fujitsu DS/90 (sparc-fujitsu-sysv4)
347
348 Changes merged in 20.3.
349
350GEC 63 (local-gec63-usg5.2)
351
352 Changes are partially merged in version 18, but certainly require
353 more work. Let us know if you get this working, and we'll give it a
354 real configuration name.
355
356Gould Power Node (pn-gould-bsd4.2 or pn-gould-bsd4.3)
357
358 18.36 worked on versions 1.2 and 2.0 of the operating system.
359
360 On UTX/32 2.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.3.
361
362 On UTX/32 1.2 and UTX/32S 1.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.2 and note that
363 compiling `lib-src/sorted-doc' tickles a compiler bug: remove the -g
364 flag to cc in the makefile.
365
366 UTX/32 1.3 has a bug in the bcopy library routine. Fix it by
367 #undef BSTRING in `src/m/gould.h'.
368
369 Version 19 incorporates support for releases 2.1 and later of UTX/32.
370 A site running a pre-release of 2.1 should #define RELEASE2_1 in config.h.
371
372Gould NP1 (np1-gould-bsd)
373
374 Version 19 supposedly works.
375
376Harris Night Hawk (m68k-harris-cxux or m88k-harris-cxux)
377
378 This port was added in 19.23. The configuration actually tested was
379 a Night Hawk 4800 running CX/UX 7.0.
380
381 If you have GCC ported and want to build with it, you probably need to
382 change things (like compiler switches) defined in the s/cxux.h file.
383
384 If you have X11R6 installed in /usr/lib, configure will fail to find
385 it and may find X11R5 instead. To work around this problem, use
386 --x-libraries=/usr/lib when you run configure.
387
388 With CX/UX 7.0 and later releases, you need to build after setting the
389 SDE_TARGET environment variable to COFF (a port using ELF and shared
390 libraries has not yet been done).
391
392Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
393
394 Patches have been merged in 19.31.
395
396Honeywell XPS100 (xps100-honeywell-sysv)
397
398 Config file added in version 19.
399
400Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 (m68k-hp-bsd or m68k-hp-hpux
401 or m68k-hp-netbsd)
402
403 These machines are 68000-series CPUs running HP/UX
404 (a derivative of sysV with some BSD features) or BSD 4.3 ported by Utah.
405 The operating system suffix determines which system Emacs is built for.
406
407 Series 200 HPUX runs Emacs only if it has the "HP/UX upgrade".
408
409 Version 19 works under BSD. The 19.26 pretest was reported
410 to work on HPUX 9. 19.31 works on HPUX 10.01, but there are
411 some problems on 10.10 which have not been resolved. Emacs 19.34
412 works on HPUX 10.20 provided you compile with GCC; with the HP C
413 compiler, subprocess commands do not work.
414
415 On HPUX 9, Emacs sometimes crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you
416 delete a frame. We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries
417 provided by HP. With the alternative X libraries in
418 /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem does not happen.
419
420 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
421 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
422 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
423 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
424
425 Note that HP has used two incompatible assembler syntaxes,
426 and has recently changed the format of C function frames.
427 `src/crt0.c' and `src/alloca.s' have been conditionalised for the new
428 assembler and new function-entry sequence. You may need to define
429 OLD_HP_ASSEMBLER if you are using an older hpux version. If you
430 have an official (bought from HP) series 300 machine you have
431 the new assembler. Kernels that are 5.+ or later have new
432 assembler. A Series 200 that has been upgraded to a 68010
433 processor and a 5.+ kernel has the new compiler.
434
435 Define C_SWITCH_MACHINE to be +X to make a version of Emacs that
436 runs on both 68010 and 68020 based HP/UX's.
437
438 Define HPUX_68010 if you are using the new assembler, for
439 a system that has a 68010 without a 68881. This is to say,
440 a s200 (upgraded) or s310.
441
442 Define the symbol HPUX_NET if you have the optional network features
443 that include the `netunam' system call. This is referred to as
444 Network Services (NS/9000) in HP literature.
445
446HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
447
448 The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
449 which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
450 and support for it would be difficult to implement.
451
452HP 9000 series 700 or 800 (Spectrum) (hppa1.0-hp-hpux or hppa1.1-hp-hpux
453 or ...hpux9shr, or ...-nextstep)
454
455 Use hppa1.1 for the 700 series and hppa1.0 for the 800
456 series machines. (Emacs may not actually care which one you use.)
457
458 Support for NextSTEP was added in 19.31.
459
460 Emacs 20 may work on HPUX 10. You need patch PHSS_6202 to install
461 the Xaw and Xmu libraries. On HPUX 10.20 you may need to compile with GCC;
462 when Emacs was compiled with HP's C compiler, HP92453-01 A.10.32.03,
463 the subprocess features failed to work.
464
465 19.26 is believed to work on HPUX 9 provided you compile with GCC.
466 As of version 19.16, Emacs was reported to build (using GCC) and run
467 on HP 9000/700 series machines running HP/UX versions 8.07 and 9.01.
468 The HP compiler is known to fail on some versions if you use +O3,
469 but it may work with lower optimization levels.
470
471 Use hppa1.1-hp-hpux9shr to use shared libraries on HPUX version 9.
472 You may need to create the X libraries libXaw.a and libXmu.a from
473 the MIT X distribute, and you may need to edit src/Makefile's
474 definition of LIBXT to look like this:
475
476 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu -lXt $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
477
478 Some people report trouble using the GNU memory allocator under
479 HP/UX version 9. The problems often manifest as lots of ^@'s in the
480 buffer.
481
482 We are told that these problems go away if you obtain the latest
483 patches for the HP/UX C compiler. James J Dempsey
484 <jjd@spserv.bbn.com> says that this set of versions works for him:
485 /bin/cc:
486 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
487 /lib/ccom:
488 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
489 HP-UX SLLIC/OPTIMIZER HP-UX.09.00.23 02/18/93
490 Ucode Code Generator - HP-UX.09.00.23.5 (patch) 2/18/93
491
492 For 700 series machines, the HP-UX patch needed is known as
493 PHSS_2653. (Perhaps for 800 series machines as well; we don't
494 know.) If you are on the Internet, you should be able to obtain
495 this patch by using telnet to access the machine
496 support.mayfield.hp.com and logging in as "hpslreg" and following
497 the instructions there. Or you may be able to use this
498 web site:
499
500 HP Patch Server: http://support.mayfield.hp.com/patches/html/patches.html
501 HP Support Line: http://support.mayfield.hp.com
502
503 Please do not ask FSF for further support on this. If you have any
504 trouble obtaining the patch, contact HP Software Support.
505
506 If your buffer fills up with nulls (^@) at some point, it could well
507 be that problem. That problem does not happen when people use GCC
508 to compile Emacs. On the other hand, the HP compiler version 9.34
509 was reported to work for the 19.26 pretest. 9.65 was also reported to work.
510
511 If you turn on the DSUSP character (delayed suspend),
512 Emacs 19.26 does not know how to turn it off on HPUX.
513 You need to turn it off manually.
514
515 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
516 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
517 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
518 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
519
520High Level Hardware Orion (orion-highlevel-bsd)
521
522 This is the original microprogrammed hardware.
523 Machine description file ought to work.
524
525High Level Hardware Orion 1/05 (clipper-highlevel-bsd)
526
527 Changes merged in 18.52. This is the one with the Clipper cpu.
528 Note that systems which lack NFS need LOAD_AVE_TYPE changed to `double'.
529
530 C compiler has a bug; it loops compiling eval.c.
531 Compile it by hand without optimization.
532
533HITACHI SR2001/SR2201 series (hppa1.1-hitachi-hiuxwe2)
534
535 These machines are based on PA architecture running HI-UX/MPP
536 (based on OSF1. `MPP' stands for `Massively Parallel Processor').
537
538 Emacs 19.34 is believed to work; its pretest was tested
539 both on SR2001 (output of `uname -rv' is `00-01-BB 0') and
540 SR2201 (`02-00 0').
541
542 Emacs 20.7 was reported to build on a system whose `uname -rs'
543 output is `HI-UX/MPP 03-04'.
544
545 The machine description file is `src/m/sr2k.h' is based on
546 `src/m/hp800.h'. The system description file is `src/s/hiuxwe2.h'
547 based on `src/s/osf1.h'. Note that this system doesn't use COFF.
548
549IBM PS/2 (i386-ibm-aix1.1 or i386-ibm-aix1.2)
550
551 Changes merged in version 19. You may need to copy
552 /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c to the Emacs src directory.
553
554 i386-ibm-aix1.1 may not work with certain new X window managers, and
555 may be suboptimal.
556
557IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
558
559 Emacs 19.26 is believed to work; its pretest was tested.
560
561 Compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5' might
562 fail because libXbsd isn't found. This is a compiler bug;
563 re-configure Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
564
565 At last report, Emacs didn't run well on terminals. Informed
566 persons say that the tty VMIN and VTIME settings have been
567 corrupted; if you have a fix, please send it to us.
568
569 Compiling with -O using the IBM compiler has been known
570 to make Emacs work incorrectly. It's reported that on
571 AIX 3.2.5 with an IBM compiler earlier than 1.03.00.14,
572 cc -O fails for some files. You need to install any
573 PTF containing APAR #IX42810 to bring the compiler to
574 the 1.03.00.14 level to allow optimized compiles.
575
576 There are reports that IBM compiler versions earlier than 1.03.00.02
577 fail even without -O. However, another report said that compiler
578 version 1.02.01.00 did work, on AIX 3.2.4, with Emacs 19.31.
579
580 As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
581
582 If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
583 ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
584 as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
585
586 If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
587 with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
588
589IBM RT/PC (romp-ibm-bsd or romp-ibm-aix)
590
591 Use romp-ibm-bsd for the 4.2-like system and romp-ibm-aix for AIX.
592 19.22 is reported to work under bsd. We don't know about AIX.
593
594 On BSD, if you have trouble, try compiling with a different compiler.
595
596 On AIX, the file /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c must be compiled into
597 hftctl.o, with this result left in the src directory (hftctl.c is
598 part of the standard AIX distribution).
599
600 window.c must not be compiled with -O on AIX.
601
602Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
603
604 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
605 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
606 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
607 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
608 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
609 StudLYCaps)
610
611 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
612
613 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
614 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
615 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
616 indicates the Umax operating system).
617
618Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, i386-*-bsdi2,
619 i386-*-xenix, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
620 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
621 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
622 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2,
623 i386-*-sco3.2v4, i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
624 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
625 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
626
627 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
628 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
629 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
630
631 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
632 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
633 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
634 Use i386-*-esix for Esix; Emacs runs as of version 19.6.
635 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
636 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
637 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
638 Use i386-*-sco3.2v4 for SCO 3.2v4; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
639
640 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
641 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
642 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
643
644 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
645
646 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
647 #define HAVE_MKDIR
648 #define HAVE_RMDIR
649 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
650
651 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
652 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
653 Newer system versions have fixed it.
654
655 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
656
657 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
658 The reasons are not yet known.
659
660 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
661 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
662 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
663 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
664 configure to run another shell such as bash.
665
666 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
667 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
668 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
669
670 If you are using Xenix, see notes at end under Xenix.
671 If you are using Esix, see notes at end under Esix.
672 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
673
674 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
675 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
676 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
677 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
678
679 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
680 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
681 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
682 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
683
684 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
685 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
686 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
687 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
688 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
689 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
690
691 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
692 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
693 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
694
695 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
696 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
697
698 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
699 to config.h.
700
701 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
702 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
703 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
704 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
705 with GCC.
706
707 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
708 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
709
710 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
711 on V.3.
712
713 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
714 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
715 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
716 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
717 according to whether you have the file.
718
719 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
720 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
721 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
722
723 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
724 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
725
726 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
727 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
728 to config.h to solve this problem.
729
730Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
731
732 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
733 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
734 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
735
736Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
737
738 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
739 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
740 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
741 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
742
743 If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
744 for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
745 problem should go away. It is possible that this problem results
746 from upgrading the operating system without reinstalling GCC; so you
747 could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
748 whether that fixes the problem.
749
750 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on IRIX 4.0.5 and 5.2.
751 19.23 was reported to work on IRIX 5.2, but you may need to install
752 the "compiler_dev.hdr.internal" subsystem in order to compile unexelfsgi.c.
753 19.22 was known to work on all Silicon Graphics machines running
754 IRIX 4.0.5 or IRIX 5.1.
755
756 Compiling with -O using IRIX compilers prior to 3.10.1 may not work.
757 Don't use -O or use GCC instead.
758
759 Most IRIX 3.3 systems do not have an ANSI C compiler, but a few do.
760 Compile Emacs 18 with the -cckr switch on these machines.
761
762 There is a bug in IRIX 3.3 that can sometimes leave ptys owned by root
763 with a permission of 622. This causes malfunctions in use of
764 subprocesses of Emacs. Irix versions 4.0 and later with GNU Emacs
765 versions 18.59 and later fix this bug.
766
767Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
768
769 18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
770 with minor fixes that are included in 18.37. However, bizarre behavior
771 was reported for 18.36 on a Masscomp (model and version unknown but probably
772 a 68020 system). The report sounds like a compiler bug.
773
774 A compiler bug affecting statements like
775 unsigned char k; unsigned char *p;... x = p[k];
776 has been reported for "C version 1.2 under RTU 3.1". We do not wish
777 to take the time to install the numerous workarounds required to
778 compensate for this bug.
779
780 For RTU version 3.1, define FIRST_PTY_LETTER to be 'p' in `src/s/rtu.h'
781 (or #undef and redefine it in config.h) so that ptys will be used.
782
783 GNU Emacs is said to have no chance of compiling on RTU versions
784 prior to v3.0.
785
786Megatest (m68k-megatest-bsd)
787
788 Emacs 15 worked; do not have any reports about Emacs 16 or 17
789 but any new bugs are probably not difficult.
790
791Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
792
793 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
794 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
795
796 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
797 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
798 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
799 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
800 don't exist.
801
802 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
803 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
804
805 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
806 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
807
808 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
809 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
810 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
811
812 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
813 line in etc/Makefile:
814
815 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
816
817 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
818 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
819 the system to give a proper signal.
820
821 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
822 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
823 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
824 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
825
826 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
827 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
828 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
829
830National Semiconductor 32000 (ns32k-ns-genix)
831
832 This is for a complete machine from National Semiconductor,
833 running Genix. Changes merged in version 19.
834
835NCR Tower 32 (m68k-ncr-sysv2 or m68k-ncr-sysv3)
836
837 If you are running System V release 2, use m68k-ncr-sysv2.
838 If you are running System V release 3, use m68k-ncr-sysv3.
839
840 These both worked as of 18.56. If you change `src/ymakefile' so that
841 CFLAGS includes C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH rather than C_DEBUG_SWITCH, check
842 out the comments in `src/m/tower32.h' (for System V release 2) or
843 `src/m/tower32v3.h' (for System V release 3) about this.
844
845 There is a report that compilation with -O did not work with 18.54
846 under System V release 2.
847
848NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
849
850 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
851 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
852 to find the X libraries.
853
854NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
855
856 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
857 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
858
859NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
860
861 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
862 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
863 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
864 builds xmakefile.
865
866 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
867 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
868 distraction.
869
870 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
871
872Nixdorf Targon 31 (m68k-nixdorf-sysv)
873
874 Machine description file for version 17 is included in 18
875 but whether it works is not known.
876 `src/unexec.c' bombs if compiled with -O.
877 Note that the "Targon 35" is really a Pyramid.
878
879Nu (TI or LMI) (m68k-nu-sysv)
880
881 Version 18 is believed to work.
882
883Paragon OSF/1 (i860-intel-osf1)
884
885 Changes merged in 19.29.
886
887 There is a bug in OSF/1 make which claims there is a syntax error
888 in the src/xmakefile. You can successfully build emacs with:
889
890 pmake MAKE=pmake
891
892Plexus (m68k-plexus-sysv)
893
894 Worked as of 17.56.
895
896Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
897
898 See under DECstation, above.
899
900Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
901
902 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
903
904Pyramid (pyramid-pyramid-bsd)
905
906 The 19.26 pretest was observed to work on OSx 5.0, but it is necessary
907 to edit gmalloc.c. You must add #include <sys/types.h> at the top,
908 and delete the #define for size_t.
909
910 You need to build Emacs in the Berkeley universe with
911 the `ucb' command, as in `ucb make' or `ucb build-install'.
912
913 In OSx 4.0, it seems necessary to add the following two lines
914 to `src/m/pyramid.h':
915 #define _longjmp longjmp
916 #define _setjmp setjmp
917
918 In Pyramid system 2.5 there has been a compiler bug making
919 Emacs crash just after screen-splitting with Qnil containing 0.
920 A compiler that fixes this is Pyramid customer number 8494,
921 internal number 1923.
922
923 Some versions of the pyramid compiler get fatal
924 errors when the -gx compiler switch is used; if this
925 happens to you, change `src/m/pyramid.h' to define
926 C_DEBUG_SWITCH with an empty definition.
927
928 Some old system versions may require you to define PYRAMID_OLD
929 in when alloca.s is preprocessed, in order to define _longjmp and _setjmp.
930
931Sequent Balance (ns32k-sequent-bsd4.2 or ns32k-sequent-bsd4.3)
932
933 Emacs 18.51 worked on system version 3.0. 18.52 is said to work.
934 Delete some lines at the end of `src/m/sequent.h' for earlier system
935 versions.
936
937Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
938
939 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
940
941 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
942 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
943 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
944
945 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
946 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
947
948 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
949 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
950 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
951 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
952 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
953 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
954 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
955
956 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
957 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
958
959Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
960
961 Changes merged in 19.29. This configuration should also work for
962 Pyramid MIS Server running DC-OSX 1.x. The version configured with
963 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
964 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
965 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
966 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
967
968 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
969 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
970
971 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
972 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
973 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
974 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
975
976 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
977 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
978
979SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
980
981 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
982
983SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
984
985 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
986
987 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
988 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
989 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
990 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
991 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
992 in data.c if you wish.
993
994Stardent i860 (i860-stardent-sysv4.0)
995
996 19.26 pretest reported to work.
997
998Stardent 1500 or 3000
999
1000 See Titan.
1001
1002Stride (m68k-stride-sysv)
1003
1004 Works (most recent news for 18.30) on their release 2.0.
1005 For release 2.2, see the end of `src/m/stride.h'.
1006 It may be possible to run on their V.1 system but changes
1007 in the s- file would be needed.
1008
1009Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
1010 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3noshr, sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
1011 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
1012
1013 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
1014 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
1015 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
1016 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
1017 compilation): env CC="cc -xarch=v9" ./configure
1018
1019 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
1020 later releases may.
1021
1ebfc51b
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1022 Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
1023 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
1024 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
1025 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
1026 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
1027
f4b79972
EZ
1028 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
1029 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
1030 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
1031 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
1032 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
1033 and the default CFLAGS.
1034
1035 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
1036 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
1037 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
1038
1039 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
1040 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
1041
1042 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
1043 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
1044 when it starts up:
1045 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
1046 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
1047 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
1048
1049 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
1050 bad code for some part of Emacs.
1051
1052 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
1053 provided you completely replace your C shared library
1054 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
1055 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
1056 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
1057 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
1058
1059 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
1060 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
1061 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
1062
1063 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
1064 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
1065 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
1066
1067 It's important to include the SunOS version number in the
1068 configuration name. For example, for SunOS release 4.0 on a Sun 3,
1069 use `m68k-sun-sunos4.0'; for SunOS release 4.1 on a Sparc, use
1070 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1'. For SunOS release 4.1.3 on a Sparc, use
1071 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3'. Note that shared libraries are now
1072 used by default on SunOS 4.1.
1073
1074 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
1075 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
1076 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
1077 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
1078
1079 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
1080 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
1081 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
1082 #define ForceNormalLib YES
1083 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
1084 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
1085
1086 Use `m68k' for the 68000-based Sun boxes, `sparc' for Sparcstations,
1087 and `i386' for Sun Roadrunners. i386 calls for Sunos4.0.
1088
1089 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
1090 when linking temacs, such as
1091 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
1092 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
1093 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
1094 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
1095
1096 On SunOS 4.1.1, do not use /usr/5bin/cc. You can use gcc or/usr/bin/cc.
1097 Make sure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.
1098
1099 Some people report crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined.
1100 Others have reported that Emacs works if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined, and not
1101 if it is undefined. So far we do not know why results vary in this way.
1102 The sources are set up so that SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined; if that crashes,
1103 or if you want the benefit of the relocating memory allocator, you can
1104 try enabling the #undef SYSTEM_MALLOC in src/s/sunos4-1-3.h.
1105
1106 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
1107 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
1108 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
1109 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1110
1111 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
1112 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
1113 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
1114 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
1115 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
1116 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
1117 rather than an Emacs bug.
1118
1119 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
1120 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
1121 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
1122 Solaris.)
1123
1124 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
1125 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
1126 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
1127 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
1128 software in the nonshared standard library.
1129
1130 If you want to use SunWindows, define HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS
1131 in config.h to enable a special interface called `emacstool'.
1132 The definition must *precede* the #include "machine.h".
1133 System version 3.2 is required for this facility to work.
1134
1135 We recommend that you instead use the X window system, which
1136 has technical advantages, is an industry standard, and is also
1137 free software. The FSF does not support the SunWindows code;
1138 we installed it only on the understanding we would not let it
1139 divert our efforts from what we think is important.
1140
1141 If you are compiling for X windows, and the X window library was
1142 compiled to use the 68881, then you must edit config.h according
1143 the comments at the end of `src/m/sun3.h'.
1144
1145 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
1146 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
1147 original text section and the original data section
1148 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
1149 swapped in.
1150
1151 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
1152 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
1153
1154 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
1155 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
1156 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
1157 are really relevant.
1158
1159 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
1160 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
1161 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
1162 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
1163 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
1164 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
1165
1166Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
1167
1168 Changes merged in 19.1.
1169
1170 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
1171 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
1172
1173 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
1174
1175 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
1176
1177Tahoe (tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.2 or tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.3)
1178
1179 18.52 was known to work on some Tahoes, but a compiler bug intervenes
1180 on others. Some Emacs versions have worked in Unisys 1r4
1181 (not in 1r3) and CCI I.21.
1182
1183 If you have trouble compiling `lib-src/loadst.c', turn off the definition
1184 of DKSTAT_HEADER_FILE in `src/m/tahoe.h'.
1185
1186Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
1187
1188 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
1189 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
1190
1191 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
1192
1193Tektronix XD88 (m88k-tektronix-sysv3*)
1194
1195 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
1196 Minor changes merged in 19.19.
1197
1198Tektronix 16000 box (6130?) (ns16k-tektronix-bsd)
1199
1200 Emacs 17.61 worked.
1201
1202Tektronix 4300 (m68k-tektronix-bsd)
1203
1204 Emacs 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1205
1206Titan P2 or P3 (titan-titan-sysv)
1207
1208 Changes probably merged in version 19.
1209
1210Ustation E30 (SS5E) (m68k-unisys-unipl)
1211
1212 Changes merged in 18.52; don't know whether they work.
1213
1214Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
1215 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
1216 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
1217 VMS (vax-dec-vms)
1218
1219 Works.
1220
1221 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
1222
1223 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
1224
1225 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
1226
1227 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1228 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1229 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1230 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1231
1232Whitechapel MG1 (ns16k-whitechapel-?)
1233
1234 May work. Supposedly no changes were needed except in `src/m/mg1.h'
1235 file. I do not know what Unix version runs on them.
1236
1237Wicat (m68k-wicat-sysv)
1238
1239 Changes merged as of 18.6; whether they work is unknown.
1240 See comments in `src/m/wicat.h' for things you should change
1241 depending on the system and compiler version you have.
1242\f
1243Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
1244
1245Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
1246
1247 Works on vaxes.
1248
1249Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
1250
1251 Works on several machines.
1252
1253Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
1254
1255 Works, on Vaxes at least.
1256
1257Esix
1258
1259 The following was written for Emacs 18.59 and has been
1260 slightly adapted for Emacs 19. It may need more change to be correct.
1261
1262 Use s/usg5-4.h for Esix System V 4.0.[34] systems if you also have
1263 XFree86. If you insist on using the Esix X Window libraries, good
1264 luck. s/esix5r4.h provides a starting point, but doesn't seem to
1265 work consistently. The basic problems involve the need to load
1266 -lX11 *last* in the link command, and even then some things break.
1267 You get best results by installing XFree86 and forgetting about the
1268 Esix stuff unless you want to run IXI xdt3, which really only needs
1269 the Esix X11 shared libraries.
1270
1271 To compile with XFree86, make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
1272 contains /usr/X386/lib. Be careful if you also have the Esix X
1273 Window libraries that /usr/X386/lib appears *first* in the
1274 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then define C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM -I/usr/X386/include.
1275
1276Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
1277
1278 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
1279 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
1280 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
1281
1282 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
1283 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
1284 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
1285 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
1286 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
1287 redistributable software from some other source.
1288
1289 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
1290 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
1291 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
1292 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
1293 directory for more explanation.
1294
1295Microport
1296
1297 See under "Intel 386".
1298
1299MSDOS
1300
1301 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
1302 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
1303 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
1304
1305SCO Unix
1306 If you have TCP but not X, you need to edit src/s/sco4.h
1307 to define HAVE_SOCKETS.
1308
1309 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
1310 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
1311 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
1312 sendmail if it exists.
1313
1314 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
1315 SMAIL in config.h.
1316
1317System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
1318
1319 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
1320 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
1321 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
1322
1323System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
1324
1325 Works on various machines.
1326 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
1327 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
1328 #define HAVE_ALLOCA
1329 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
1330 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
1331
1332 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
1333 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
1334 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
1335 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
1336
1337System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
1338
1339 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
1340 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
1341 is used to enable the other interface.
1342
1343 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
1344
1345 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
1346 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
1347 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
1348 machines running 5.2.2.
1349
1350System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
1351
1352 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
1353 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
1354
1355 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
1356 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
1357
1358 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
1359 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
1360 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
1361
1362 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
1363 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
1364 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
1365 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
1366 installing Xfree86 to fix this.
1367
1368System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
1369
1370 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
1371 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
1372 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
1373 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
1374 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
1375 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
1376 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
1377
1378 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
1379 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
1380
1381 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
1382 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
1383 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
1384
1385 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
1386 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
1387 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
1388 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
1389 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
1390 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
1391 X11 library is new enough.
1392
1393 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
1394 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
1395 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
1396 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
1397 won't work with X.
1398
1399 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
1400 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
1401 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
1402 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
1403
1404Ultrix (bsd4.3)
1405
1406 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
1407 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
1408
1409 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
1410 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
1411 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
1412
1413 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
1414
1415 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
1416 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
1417 #endif
1418
1419 Then I ran the following:
1420
1421 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
1422
1423 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
1424
1425Uniplus 5.2 (unipl5.2)
1426
1427 Works, on Dual machines at least.
1428
1429VMS (vmsM.N)
1430
1431 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1432 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1433 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1434 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1435
1436 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
1437 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
1438 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
1439
1440Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
1441
1442 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
1443 file nt/INSTALL.
1444
1445Xenix (xenix)
1446
1447 Should work in 18.50, but you will need to edit the files
1448 `lib-src/Makefile' and `src/ymakefile'
1449 (see the comments that mention "Xenix" for what to change.)
1450 Compiling Emacs with -O is said not to work.
1451
1452 If you want Emacs to work with Smail (installed as /usr/bin/smail)
1453 then add the line #define SMAIL to config.h.
1454
1455 The file etc/XENIX suggests some useful things to do to Xenix
1456 to make the Emacs meta key work.
1457\f
1458Local variables:
1459mode: indented-text
1460fill-prefix: " "
1461End: