GNU Emacs Installation Guide
-Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
- 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2012
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
sections of this guide will help you do that, so please refer to those
sections if you need to.
- 1. Unpacking the Emacs 23.2 release requires about 170 MB of free
- disk space. Building Emacs uses about another 60 MB of space.
- The final installed Emacs uses about 120 MB of disk space.
+ 1. Unpacking the Emacs 24.1 release requires about 180 MB of free
+ disk space. Building Emacs uses about another 70 MB of space.
+ The final installed Emacs uses about 110 MB of disk space.
This includes the space-saving that comes from automatically
compressing the Lisp source files on installation.
* Complex Text Layout support libraries
-Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db", "libm17n-flt", "libotf"
-to correctly display such complex scripts as Indic and Khmer.
-On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux, these libraries may be
-already present or available as additional packages. Note that if
-there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
-time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
-corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will contain
-header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can download and
-build libraries from sources.
+On GNU and Unix systems, Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db",
+"libm17n-flt", "libotf" to correctly display such complex scripts as
+Indic and Khmer, and also for scripts that require Arabic shaping
+support (Arabic and Farsi). On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux,
+these libraries may be already present or available as additional
+packages. Note that if there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package,
+for use at compilation time rather than run time, you will need that
+as well as the corresponding run time package; typically the dev
+package will contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise,
+you can download and build libraries from sources.
The sources of these libraries are available by anonymous CVS from
cvs.m17n.org.
because you lack some other packages on which m17n-lib depends, try to
configure it with the option "--without-gui".
+Note that Emacs cannot support complex scripts on a TTY, unless the
+terminal includes such a support.
+
* intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
GNU/Linux distribution that you use, and the options that you want to
configure Emacs with. On Debian-based systems, you can install all the
packages needed to build the installed version of Emacs with a command
-like `apt-get build-dep emacs23'.
+like `apt-get build-dep emacs23'. On Red Hat systems, the
+corresponding command is `yum-builddep emacs'.
DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
+Use --with-wide-int to implement Emacs values with the type 'long long',
+even on hosts where a narrower type would do. With this option, on a
+typical 32-bit host, Emacs integers have 62 bits instead of 30.
+
The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
- Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
`./src/epaths.h' from the template file `./src/epaths.in', changing
the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
-2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
+2) Go to directory `./lib' and run `make'. This creates include files
+and libraries used in later steps.
+
+3) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
executables named `etags', `make-docfile', and others.
-3) Go to directory `./src' and run `make'. This refers to files in
-the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
-`../lib-src'.
+4) Go to directory `./src' and run `make'. This refers to files in
+the `./lisp', `./lib', and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names
+`../lisp', `../lib', and `../lib-src'.
This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
which has another name that contains a version number.
in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/epaths.h'.
Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
-- The programs `fakemail', `hexl', `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log',
- and `vcdiff' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
+- The programs `hexl', `movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', and `vcdiff'
+ are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
- The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', and `rcs-checkin'
are intended to be run by users; they are handled below.
- The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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