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1 Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation
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3 This file is part of XEmacs.
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5 XEmacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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7 Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
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8 option) any later version.
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10 XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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11 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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12 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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13 for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 along with XEmacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 Package distributions may be placed in this directory.
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20 If present and a package-path is configured, packages can be installed
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21 using the top-level Makefile.
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23 To configure the package path, use the --with-late-packages option to
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24 configure, which specifies a single directory in which to install the
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25 xemacs-packages and mule-packages hierarchies provided. If this is null,
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26 or contains a Unix-style search path (i.e., a colon is present in the
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27 argument of the --with-late-packages option), you will have to install
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28 the packages by hand.
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30 To find out if a distribution includes bundled packages, type
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32 make check-available-packages
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34 There are three Make targets that may be available depending on the package
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35 sets supplied.
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37 make install-bootstrap-packages
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38 Install a selected set of packages sufficient to support
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39 downloading and installing packages via the M-x list-packages
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40 interface. Chose this if you want to be able to install the
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41 latest version of each package immediately.
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43 make install-nomule-packages
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44 Install the full distribution of packages that do not require a
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45 Mule-enabled XEmacs. Choose this package if you don't have a
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46 Mule-enabled XEmacs and want the convenience of a single-command
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47 installation. You can add or update packages via M-x list-packages
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48 at any time.
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50 make install-all-packages
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51 Install the full distribution of packages, including those requiring
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52 a Mule-enabled XEmacs. Choose this package if you have a Mule-
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53 enabled XEmacs and want the convenience of a single-command
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54 installation. You can add or update packages via M-x list-packages
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55 at any time.
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57 DISTRIBUTOR'S NOTE: you may choose what packages you wish to include in
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58 bootstrap.tar.gz, but to make list-packages work you need to include at
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59 least xemacs-base, dired, and efs. The tarball should unpack directly as
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60 an xemacs-packages tree (and optionaly, a mule-packages tree. Also, if
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61 either of xemacs-sumo.tar.gz or xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz is provided, the
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62 other should be as well.
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64 If packages are not available with the distribution, you can get them at
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66 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz
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67 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz
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68 http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/bootstrap.tar.gz
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70 and place them in the same directory as this file. You can also make your
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71 own bootstrap.tar.gz by creating a directory xemacs-packages, then
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72 untarring the packages of your choice into that directory, and tarring the
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73 whole thing up with "tar czf bootstrap.tar.gz xemacs-packages". (If you
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74 wish to include mule-packages, you should place them in mule-packages as
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75 a sibling of xemacs-packages.)
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77 This facility currently does not support installations which configure
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78 the --with-early-packages, --with-late-packages, or --with-last-packages
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79 options.
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81 This facility currently will not overwrite an existing package
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82 installation, not even if a whole hierarchy (usually the mule-packages)
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83 is missing. In particular, you cannot use this feature to add the
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84 mule-packages to a package installation which lacks them, even if the
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85 hierarchy is missing, or the xemacs-packages hierarchy was installed
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86 this way. Nor can you "upgrade" a bootstrap installation to a full
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87 installation. If you wish to do any of these things you will need to
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88 remove the existing hierarchies.
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