Gtk or Motif, if you have the Xaw3d library installed (see
"Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d availability).
-You can tell configure where to search for GTK by specifying
-`--with-pkg-config-prog=PATH' where PATH is the pathname to
-pkg-config. Note that GTK version 2.6 or newer is required for Emacs.
+You can tell configure where to search for GTK by giving it the
+argument PKG_CONFIG='/full/name/of/pkg-config'. GTK version 2.6 or
+newer is required for Emacs.
Emacs will autolaunch a D-Bus session bus, when the environment
variable DISPLAY is set, but no session bus is running. This might be
there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the
generated warnings may still be useful.
-Use --enable-link-time-optimization to enable link-time optimizer, which
-is available in GNU compiler since version 4.5.0. If your compiler is not
-GNU or older than version 4.5.0, this option does nothing. If `configure'
-can determine number of online CPUS on your system, final link-time
-optimization and code generation is executed in parallel using one job
-per each available online CPU.
+Use --enable-link-time-optimization to enable link-time optimizer. If
+you're using GNU compiler, this feature is supported since version 4.5.0.
+If `configure' can determine number of online CPUS on your system, final
+link-time optimization and code generation is executed in parallel using
+one job per each available online CPU.
+
+This option is also supported for clang. You should have GNU binutils
+with `gold' linker and plugin support, and clang with LLVMgold.so plugin.
+Read http://llvm.org/docs/GoldPlugin.html for details. Also note that
+this feature is still experimental, so prepare to build binutils and
+clang from the corresponding source code repositories.
The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like
shell such as Bash, which uses these variables:
- CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
- CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
+ ./configure \
+ CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
+ CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar'
-(this is all one long line). This tells `configure' to instruct the
+(this is all one shell command). This tells `configure' to instruct the
preprocessor to look in the `/foo/myinclude' directory for header
files (in addition to the standard directories), instruct the linker
to look in `/bar/mylib' for libraries, pass the -O3 optimization
For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' uses
pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed.
If you want pkg-config to look in special directories, you have to set
-the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories
-where the .pc-files for those libraries are.
-For example:
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories where the .pc-files for
+those libraries are. For example:
- PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig' \
- ./configure
+ ./configure \
+ PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig'
The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
distribution, but using `configure' is easier. See the section called