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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.
20
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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
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602IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
603
604 As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
605 system.
606
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607Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
608
609 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
610 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
611 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
612 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
613 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
614 StudLYCaps)
615
616 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
617
618 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
619 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
620 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
621 indicates the Umax operating system).
622
623Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, i386-*-bsdi2,
624 i386-*-xenix, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
625 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
626 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
627 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2,
628 i386-*-sco3.2v4, i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
629 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
630 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
631
632 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
633 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
634 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
635
636 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
637 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
638 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
639 Use i386-*-esix for Esix; Emacs runs as of version 19.6.
640 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
641 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
642 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
643 Use i386-*-sco3.2v4 for SCO 3.2v4; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
644
645 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
646 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
647 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
648
649 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
650
651 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
652 #define HAVE_MKDIR
653 #define HAVE_RMDIR
654 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
655
656 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
657 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
658 Newer system versions have fixed it.
659
660 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
661
662 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
663 The reasons are not yet known.
664
665 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
666 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
667 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
668 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
669 configure to run another shell such as bash.
670
671 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
672 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
673 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
674
675 If you are using Xenix, see notes at end under Xenix.
676 If you are using Esix, see notes at end under Esix.
677 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
678
679 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
680 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
681 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
682 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
683
684 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
685 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
686 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
687 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
688
689 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
690 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
691 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
692 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
693 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
694 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
695
696 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
697 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
698 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
699
700 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
701 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
702
703 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
704 to config.h.
705
706 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
707 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
708 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
709 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
710 with GCC.
711
712 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
713 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
714
715 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
716 on V.3.
717
718 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
719 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
720 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
721 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
722 according to whether you have the file.
723
724 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
725 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
726 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
727
728 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
729 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
730
731 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
732 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
733 to config.h to solve this problem.
734
735Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
736
737 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
738 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
739 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
740
741Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
742
743 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
744 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
745 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
746 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
747
748 If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
749 for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
750 problem should go away. It is possible that this problem results
751 from upgrading the operating system without reinstalling GCC; so you
752 could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
753 whether that fixes the problem.
754
755 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on IRIX 4.0.5 and 5.2.
756 19.23 was reported to work on IRIX 5.2, but you may need to install
757 the "compiler_dev.hdr.internal" subsystem in order to compile unexelfsgi.c.
758 19.22 was known to work on all Silicon Graphics machines running
759 IRIX 4.0.5 or IRIX 5.1.
760
761 Compiling with -O using IRIX compilers prior to 3.10.1 may not work.
762 Don't use -O or use GCC instead.
763
764 Most IRIX 3.3 systems do not have an ANSI C compiler, but a few do.
765 Compile Emacs 18 with the -cckr switch on these machines.
766
767 There is a bug in IRIX 3.3 that can sometimes leave ptys owned by root
768 with a permission of 622. This causes malfunctions in use of
769 subprocesses of Emacs. Irix versions 4.0 and later with GNU Emacs
770 versions 18.59 and later fix this bug.
771
772Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
773
774 18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
775 with minor fixes that are included in 18.37. However, bizarre behavior
776 was reported for 18.36 on a Masscomp (model and version unknown but probably
777 a 68020 system). The report sounds like a compiler bug.
778
779 A compiler bug affecting statements like
780 unsigned char k; unsigned char *p;... x = p[k];
781 has been reported for "C version 1.2 under RTU 3.1". We do not wish
782 to take the time to install the numerous workarounds required to
783 compensate for this bug.
784
785 For RTU version 3.1, define FIRST_PTY_LETTER to be 'p' in `src/s/rtu.h'
786 (or #undef and redefine it in config.h) so that ptys will be used.
787
788 GNU Emacs is said to have no chance of compiling on RTU versions
789 prior to v3.0.
790
791Megatest (m68k-megatest-bsd)
792
793 Emacs 15 worked; do not have any reports about Emacs 16 or 17
794 but any new bugs are probably not difficult.
795
796Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
797
798 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
799 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
800
801 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
802 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
803 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
804 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
805 don't exist.
806
807 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
808 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
809
810 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
811 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
812
813 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
814 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
815 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
816
817 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
818 line in etc/Makefile:
819
820 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
821
822 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
823 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
824 the system to give a proper signal.
825
826 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
827 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
828 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
829 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
830
831 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
832 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
833 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
834
835National Semiconductor 32000 (ns32k-ns-genix)
836
837 This is for a complete machine from National Semiconductor,
838 running Genix. Changes merged in version 19.
839
840NCR Tower 32 (m68k-ncr-sysv2 or m68k-ncr-sysv3)
841
842 If you are running System V release 2, use m68k-ncr-sysv2.
843 If you are running System V release 3, use m68k-ncr-sysv3.
844
845 These both worked as of 18.56. If you change `src/ymakefile' so that
846 CFLAGS includes C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH rather than C_DEBUG_SWITCH, check
847 out the comments in `src/m/tower32.h' (for System V release 2) or
848 `src/m/tower32v3.h' (for System V release 3) about this.
849
850 There is a report that compilation with -O did not work with 18.54
851 under System V release 2.
852
853NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
854
855 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
856 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
857 to find the X libraries.
858
859NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
860
861 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
862 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
863
864NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
865
866 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
867 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
868 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
869 builds xmakefile.
870
871 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
872 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
873 distraction.
874
875 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
876
877Nixdorf Targon 31 (m68k-nixdorf-sysv)
878
879 Machine description file for version 17 is included in 18
880 but whether it works is not known.
881 `src/unexec.c' bombs if compiled with -O.
882 Note that the "Targon 35" is really a Pyramid.
883
884Nu (TI or LMI) (m68k-nu-sysv)
885
886 Version 18 is believed to work.
887
888Paragon OSF/1 (i860-intel-osf1)
889
890 Changes merged in 19.29.
891
892 There is a bug in OSF/1 make which claims there is a syntax error
893 in the src/xmakefile. You can successfully build emacs with:
894
895 pmake MAKE=pmake
896
897Plexus (m68k-plexus-sysv)
898
899 Worked as of 17.56.
900
901Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
902
903 See under DECstation, above.
904
905Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
906
907 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
908
909Pyramid (pyramid-pyramid-bsd)
910
911 The 19.26 pretest was observed to work on OSx 5.0, but it is necessary
912 to edit gmalloc.c. You must add #include <sys/types.h> at the top,
913 and delete the #define for size_t.
914
915 You need to build Emacs in the Berkeley universe with
916 the `ucb' command, as in `ucb make' or `ucb build-install'.
917
918 In OSx 4.0, it seems necessary to add the following two lines
919 to `src/m/pyramid.h':
920 #define _longjmp longjmp
921 #define _setjmp setjmp
922
923 In Pyramid system 2.5 there has been a compiler bug making
924 Emacs crash just after screen-splitting with Qnil containing 0.
925 A compiler that fixes this is Pyramid customer number 8494,
926 internal number 1923.
927
928 Some versions of the pyramid compiler get fatal
929 errors when the -gx compiler switch is used; if this
930 happens to you, change `src/m/pyramid.h' to define
931 C_DEBUG_SWITCH with an empty definition.
932
933 Some old system versions may require you to define PYRAMID_OLD
934 in when alloca.s is preprocessed, in order to define _longjmp and _setjmp.
935
936Sequent Balance (ns32k-sequent-bsd4.2 or ns32k-sequent-bsd4.3)
937
938 Emacs 18.51 worked on system version 3.0. 18.52 is said to work.
939 Delete some lines at the end of `src/m/sequent.h' for earlier system
940 versions.
941
942Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
943
944 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
945
946 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
947 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
948 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
949
950 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
951 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
952
953 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
954 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
955 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
956 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
957 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
958 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
959 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
960
961 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
962 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
963
964Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
965
966 Changes merged in 19.29. This configuration should also work for
967 Pyramid MIS Server running DC-OSX 1.x. The version configured with
968 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
969 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
970 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
971 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
972
973 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
974 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
975
976 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
977 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
978 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
979 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
980
981 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
982 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
983
984SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
985
986 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
987
988SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
989
990 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
991
992 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
993 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
994 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
995 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
996 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
997 in data.c if you wish.
998
999Stardent i860 (i860-stardent-sysv4.0)
1000
1001 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1002
1003Stardent 1500 or 3000
1004
1005 See Titan.
1006
1007Stride (m68k-stride-sysv)
1008
1009 Works (most recent news for 18.30) on their release 2.0.
1010 For release 2.2, see the end of `src/m/stride.h'.
1011 It may be possible to run on their V.1 system but changes
1012 in the s- file would be needed.
1013
1014Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
1015 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3noshr, sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
1016 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
1017
1018 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
1019 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
1020 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
1021 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
1022 compilation): env CC="cc -xarch=v9" ./configure
1023
1024 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
1025 later releases may.
1026
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1028 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
1029 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
1030 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
1031 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
1032
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1033 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
1034 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
1035 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
1036 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
1037 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
1038 and the default CFLAGS.
1039
1040 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
1041 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
1042 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
1043
1044 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
1045 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
1046
1047 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
1048 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
1049 when it starts up:
1050 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
1051 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
1052 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
1053
1054 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
1055 bad code for some part of Emacs.
1056
1057 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
1058 provided you completely replace your C shared library
1059 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
1060 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
1061 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
1062 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
1063
1064 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
1065 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
1066 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
1067
1068 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
1069 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
1070 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
1071
1072 It's important to include the SunOS version number in the
1073 configuration name. For example, for SunOS release 4.0 on a Sun 3,
1074 use `m68k-sun-sunos4.0'; for SunOS release 4.1 on a Sparc, use
1075 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1'. For SunOS release 4.1.3 on a Sparc, use
1076 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3'. Note that shared libraries are now
1077 used by default on SunOS 4.1.
1078
1079 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
1080 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
1081 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
1082 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
1083
1084 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
1085 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
1086 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
1087 #define ForceNormalLib YES
1088 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
1089 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
1090
1091 Use `m68k' for the 68000-based Sun boxes, `sparc' for Sparcstations,
1092 and `i386' for Sun Roadrunners. i386 calls for Sunos4.0.
1093
1094 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
1095 when linking temacs, such as
1096 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
1097 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
1098 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
1099 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
1100
1101 On SunOS 4.1.1, do not use /usr/5bin/cc. You can use gcc or/usr/bin/cc.
1102 Make sure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.
1103
1104 Some people report crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined.
1105 Others have reported that Emacs works if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined, and not
1106 if it is undefined. So far we do not know why results vary in this way.
1107 The sources are set up so that SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined; if that crashes,
1108 or if you want the benefit of the relocating memory allocator, you can
1109 try enabling the #undef SYSTEM_MALLOC in src/s/sunos4-1-3.h.
1110
1111 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
1112 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
1113 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
1114 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1115
1116 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
1117 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
1118 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
1119 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
1120 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
1121 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
1122 rather than an Emacs bug.
1123
1124 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
1125 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
1126 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
1127 Solaris.)
1128
1129 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
1130 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
1131 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
1132 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
1133 software in the nonshared standard library.
1134
1135 If you want to use SunWindows, define HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS
1136 in config.h to enable a special interface called `emacstool'.
1137 The definition must *precede* the #include "machine.h".
1138 System version 3.2 is required for this facility to work.
1139
1140 We recommend that you instead use the X window system, which
1141 has technical advantages, is an industry standard, and is also
1142 free software. The FSF does not support the SunWindows code;
1143 we installed it only on the understanding we would not let it
1144 divert our efforts from what we think is important.
1145
1146 If you are compiling for X windows, and the X window library was
1147 compiled to use the 68881, then you must edit config.h according
1148 the comments at the end of `src/m/sun3.h'.
1149
1150 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
1151 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
1152 original text section and the original data section
1153 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
1154 swapped in.
1155
1156 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
1157 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
1158
1159 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
1160 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
1161 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
1162 are really relevant.
1163
1164 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
1165 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
1166 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
1167 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
1168 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
1169 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
1170
1171Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
1172
1173 Changes merged in 19.1.
1174
1175 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
1176 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
1177
1178 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
1179
1180 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
1181
1182Tahoe (tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.2 or tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.3)
1183
1184 18.52 was known to work on some Tahoes, but a compiler bug intervenes
1185 on others. Some Emacs versions have worked in Unisys 1r4
1186 (not in 1r3) and CCI I.21.
1187
1188 If you have trouble compiling `lib-src/loadst.c', turn off the definition
1189 of DKSTAT_HEADER_FILE in `src/m/tahoe.h'.
1190
1191Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
1192
1193 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
1194 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
1195
1196 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
1197
1198Tektronix XD88 (m88k-tektronix-sysv3*)
1199
1200 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
1201 Minor changes merged in 19.19.
1202
1203Tektronix 16000 box (6130?) (ns16k-tektronix-bsd)
1204
1205 Emacs 17.61 worked.
1206
1207Tektronix 4300 (m68k-tektronix-bsd)
1208
1209 Emacs 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1210
1211Titan P2 or P3 (titan-titan-sysv)
1212
1213 Changes probably merged in version 19.
1214
1215Ustation E30 (SS5E) (m68k-unisys-unipl)
1216
1217 Changes merged in 18.52; don't know whether they work.
1218
1219Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
1220 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
1221 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
1222 VMS (vax-dec-vms)
1223
1224 Works.
1225
1226 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
1227
1228 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
1229
1230 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
1231
1232 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1233 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1234 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1235 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1236
1237Whitechapel MG1 (ns16k-whitechapel-?)
1238
1239 May work. Supposedly no changes were needed except in `src/m/mg1.h'
1240 file. I do not know what Unix version runs on them.
1241
1242Wicat (m68k-wicat-sysv)
1243
1244 Changes merged as of 18.6; whether they work is unknown.
1245 See comments in `src/m/wicat.h' for things you should change
1246 depending on the system and compiler version you have.
1247\f
1248Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
1249
1250Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
1251
1252 Works on vaxes.
1253
1254Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
1255
1256 Works on several machines.
1257
1258Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
1259
1260 Works, on Vaxes at least.
1261
1262Esix
1263
1264 The following was written for Emacs 18.59 and has been
1265 slightly adapted for Emacs 19. It may need more change to be correct.
1266
1267 Use s/usg5-4.h for Esix System V 4.0.[34] systems if you also have
1268 XFree86. If you insist on using the Esix X Window libraries, good
1269 luck. s/esix5r4.h provides a starting point, but doesn't seem to
1270 work consistently. The basic problems involve the need to load
1271 -lX11 *last* in the link command, and even then some things break.
1272 You get best results by installing XFree86 and forgetting about the
1273 Esix stuff unless you want to run IXI xdt3, which really only needs
1274 the Esix X11 shared libraries.
1275
1276 To compile with XFree86, make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
1277 contains /usr/X386/lib. Be careful if you also have the Esix X
1278 Window libraries that /usr/X386/lib appears *first* in the
1279 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then define C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM -I/usr/X386/include.
1280
1281Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
1282
1283 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
1284 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
1285 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
1286
1287 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
1288 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
1289 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
1290 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
1291 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
1292 redistributable software from some other source.
1293
1294 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
1295 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
1296 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
1297 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
1298 directory for more explanation.
1299
1300Microport
1301
1302 See under "Intel 386".
1303
1304MSDOS
1305
1306 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
1307 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
1308 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
1309
1310SCO Unix
1311 If you have TCP but not X, you need to edit src/s/sco4.h
1312 to define HAVE_SOCKETS.
1313
1314 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
1315 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
1316 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
1317 sendmail if it exists.
1318
1319 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
1320 SMAIL in config.h.
1321
1322System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
1323
1324 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
1325 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
1326 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
1327
1328System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
1329
1330 Works on various machines.
1331 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
1332 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
1333 #define HAVE_ALLOCA
1334 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
1335 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
1336
1337 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
1338 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
1339 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
1340 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
1341
1342System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
1343
1344 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
1345 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
1346 is used to enable the other interface.
1347
1348 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
1349
1350 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
1351 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
1352 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
1353 machines running 5.2.2.
1354
1355System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
1356
1357 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
1358 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
1359
1360 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
1361 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
1362
1363 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
1364 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
1365 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
1366
1367 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
1368 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
1369 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
1370 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
1371 installing Xfree86 to fix this.
1372
1373System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
1374
1375 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
1376 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
1377 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
1378 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
1379 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
1380 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
1381 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
1382
1383 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
1384 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
1385
1386 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
1387 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
1388 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
1389
1390 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
1391 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
1392 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
1393 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
1394 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
1395 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
1396 X11 library is new enough.
1397
1398 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
1399 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
1400 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
1401 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
1402 won't work with X.
1403
1404 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
1405 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
1406 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
1407 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
1408
1409Ultrix (bsd4.3)
1410
1411 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
1412 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
1413
1414 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
1415 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
1416 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
1417
1418 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
1419
1420 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
1421 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
1422 #endif
1423
1424 Then I ran the following:
1425
1426 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
1427
1428 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
1429
1430Uniplus 5.2 (unipl5.2)
1431
1432 Works, on Dual machines at least.
1433
1434VMS (vmsM.N)
1435
1436 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1437 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1438 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1439 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1440
1441 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
1442 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
1443 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
1444
1445Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
1446
1447 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
1448 file nt/INSTALL.
1449
1450Xenix (xenix)
1451
1452 Should work in 18.50, but you will need to edit the files
1453 `lib-src/Makefile' and `src/ymakefile'
1454 (see the comments that mention "Xenix" for what to change.)
1455 Compiling Emacs with -O is said not to work.
1456
1457 If you want Emacs to work with Smail (installed as /usr/bin/smail)
1458 then add the line #define SMAIL to config.h.
1459
1460 The file etc/XENIX suggests some useful things to do to Xenix
1461 to make the Emacs meta key work.
1462\f
1463Local variables:
1464mode: indented-text
1465fill-prefix: " "
1466End: