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2 Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
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3 Copyright (c) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 Synched up with: FSF 19.30.
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7 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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8 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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9 copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
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10 and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
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11 for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
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13 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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14 of this document, or of portions of it,
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15 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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16 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them,
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17 and that any new or changed statements about the activities
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18 of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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20
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21 BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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23 1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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24 a program whose pure code is 900k bytes and whose data area is at
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25 least 400k and can reach 8Mb or more. If the swapping space is
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26 insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch
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27 -l loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in.in', or possibly when
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28 running the final dumped XEmacs.
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30 Building XEmacs requires about 88 Mb of disk space (including the
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31 XEmacs sources). Once installed, XEmacs occupies about 50 Mb in the
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32 file system where it is installed; this includes the executable files,
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33 Lisp libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation.
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34 The amount of storage of the Lisp directories may be reduced by
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35 compressing the .el files. If the building and installation take place
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36 in different directories, then the installation procedure temporarily
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37 requires 88+50 Mb.
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39 XEmacs requires an ANSI C compiler, such as GCC.
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41
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42 2) Decide on what other software packages you would like to use with
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43 XEmacs, but are not yet available on your system. On some systems,
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44 Motif and CDE are optional additions. On Solaris, the SUNWaudmo
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45 package enables native sound support. There are also a number of free
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46 software packages that XEmacs can use. If these are not yet available
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47 on your system, obtain, build and install those external packages
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48 before building XEmacs. The packages XEmacs can use are:
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50 Xaw3d, XPM, JPEG, compface, PNG, zlib, OffiX, GNU DBM, Berkeley DB,
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51 socks, term, NAS, Canna, Wnn.
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53 You can get (most of) them from the XEmacs ftp site at
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54 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/aux
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56 If you want users on other systems to be able to use the XEmacs you
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57 have built, try to build those packages so that the generated
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58 libraries are statically linked.
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59
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60 Use the --site-includes and --site-libraries options when building
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61 XEmacs to allow configure to find the external software packages.
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65 program `configure' as follows:
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67 ./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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69 Usually, you should let `configure' (actually the shell script
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70 `config.guess') guess your system type, by omitting the
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71 CONFIGURATION-NAME argument. If you like to experiment, specify a
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72 configuration name in the form MACHINE-VENDOR-OPSYS, for example:
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74 sparc-sun-solaris2.6
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76 See config.guess and configure.in for valid values for MACHINE,
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77 VENDOR, and OPSYS. Also check `./etc/MACHINES' for advice on building
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78 on particular machines.
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80 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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81 option, `configure' will try to autodetect whether your system has X,
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82 and arrange to use it if present.
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84 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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85 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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86 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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87 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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88 Window System files installed in unusual places.
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90 The `--site-includes=DIR' and `--site-libraries=DIR' options allow you
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91 to specify additional places the compiler should look for include
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92 files and object libraries. You may specify multiple DIR's by
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93 enclosing the list in quotes. All the external packages you want to
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94 use with XEmacs (e.g. xpm, wnn, ...) described later should have their
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95 include and library directories defined using these options.
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97 The `--site-runtime-libraries=DIR' option specifies additional
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98 directories to search for shared libraries at run time. This may be
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99 necessary on some systems, or if you expect some of the libraries used
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100 to build XEmacs to be in a different directory at run time than at
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101 build time. Usually this will add a `-R' to each directory specified
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102 and use that when linking XEmacs.
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104 The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
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105 compile XEmacs using GCC. The `--compiler' option allows you to
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106 specify some other compiler to be used to compile XEmacs. If neither
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107 option is specified, the environment variable CC is used instead.
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108 Otherwise the compiler will then default to 'cc'.
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110 The `--cflags' option specifies the CFLAGS the build process should
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111 use when compiling XEmacs. Otherwise the value of the environment
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112 variable CFLAGS is consulted. If that is also undefined, CFLAGS
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113 defaults to "-g -O" for gcc and "-g" for all other compilers.
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115 The `--with-gnu-make' option specifies that Makefiles should be
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116 written to take advantage of special features of GNU Make. GNU Make
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117 works fine on Makefiles even without this option. This flag just
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118 allows for simultaneous in-place and --srcdir building.
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120 The `--dynamic' option specifies that configure should try to link
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121 emacs dynamically rather than statically.
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123 The `--const-is-losing' option is for use if you have trouble
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124 compiling due to the `const' storage class in C. This is defined by
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125 default. Most users should have no need to change this.
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127 You can build XEmacs for several different machine types from a single
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128 source directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
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129 supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. Make separate
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130 build directories for the different configuration types, and in each
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131 one, run the XEmacs `configure' script. `configure' looks for the
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132 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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134 The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
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135 should put XEmacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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136 - XEmacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
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137 (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
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138 - The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/lib/xemacs-VERSION
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141 PREFIXDIR/lib/xemacs-VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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142 (where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like mips-dec-ultrix4.2),
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143 unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise.
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145 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
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146 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
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147 files, like executables and utility programs. If specified,
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148 - XEmacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and
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149 - The architecture-dependent files go in
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150 EXECDIR/lib/xemacs-VERSION/CONFIGURATION.
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151 EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs.
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153 For example, the command
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157 configures XEmacs to build for a DECstation running Ultrix, with
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158 support for the X11 window system.
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160 The `--with-menubars=TYPE' option allows you to specify which X
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161 toolkit you wish to use for the menubar. The valid options are
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162 `lucid', `motif' and `no'. The default is `lucid' which is a
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163 Motif-lookalike menubar. We highly recommend its usage over the real
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164 Motif menubar. (In fact, the Motif menubar is currently broken.) If
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165 `no' is specified then support for menubars will not be compiled in.
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167 The `--with-scrollbars=TYPE' option allows you to specify which X
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168 toolkit you wish to use for the scrollbars. The valid options are
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169 `lucid', `motif', `athena', `athena3d', and `no'. The default is
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170 `lucid' which is a Motif-lookalike scrollbar. If `no' is specified
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171 then support for scrollbars will not be compiled in.
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173 The `--with-dialogs=TYPE' option allows you to specify which X toolkit
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174 you wish to use for the scrollbars. The valid options are `athena',
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175 `motif, and `no. The `lucid' option is accepted and will result in
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176 the `athena' toolkit being used. If the Motif toolkit can be found
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177 the default is `motif'. Otherwise, the default is `athena'. If
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178 `no' is specified then support for dialog boxes will not be compiled
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179 in.
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181 The `--with-toolbars' option allows you to enable or disable toolbar
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182 support. The default is `yes' as long as support for a windowing
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183 system is included.
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186 conversion. No extra libraries are required. This options defaults
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187 to `yes'.
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189 The `--with-xpm' option specifies that XEmacs should support X11
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190 Pixmaps. `configure' will attempt to detect if you have the Xpm
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191 libraries and define `--with-xpm' for you.
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193 The `--with-xface' option specifies that XEmacs should support
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194 X-Faces. `configure' will attempt to detect if you have the compface
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195 library and define `--with-xface' for you.
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197 The `--with-jpeg' option specifies that XEmacs should support JPEG
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198 image conversion. This option requires libjpeg from the Independent
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199 JPEG Group which is available on the XEmacs ftp site. `configure'
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200 will attempt to detect if you have libjpeg and define `--with-jpeg'
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201 for you.
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202
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204 conversion. The valid options are `yes' and `no'. This option
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206 option also requires a decompression library, either libz or
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207 libgz. XEmacs will detect whether libz is available, and use that,
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208 else it will use libgz.
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210 The `--with-database' option specifies that XEmacs should be built
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211 with additional database support. The valid options are `no' or a
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212 comma-separated list of one or more of `dbm', `gnudbm' or `berkdb'.
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213 `configure' will attempt to detect the necessary libraries and header
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214 files and define `--with-database' for you.
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215
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216 The `--with-socks' option specifies that XEmacs should be built with
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217 SOCKS support. This requires the libsocks library.
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219 The `--with-term' option specifies that XEmacs should be built with
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220 TERM support. TERM is a way to multiplex serial lines over a simple
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221 dialup connection, used on Linux and other systems. We cannot
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222 guarantee that our TERM support coexists well with standard Internet
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223 connections.
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225 The `--with-tooltalk' option specifies that XEmacs should be built
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226 with ToolTalk support for interconnecting with other applications.
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227 ToolTalk is not yet supported on all architectures.
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229 The `--with-sparcworks' option specifies that XEmacs should be built
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230 with support for Sun Sparcworks 3.0.1 and up (including Sun WorkShop).
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231 This functionality is only of use on SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x
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235 drop support. `configure' will attempt to detect this option and
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236 define `--with-cde' for you.
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240 define `--with-offix' for you.
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243 with support for the Lucid Energize system. (If you have not
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244 purchased Energize, specifying this option won't gain you anything.)
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247 The `--external-widget' option specifies that XEmacs should be built
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248 with support for being used as a widget by other X11 applications.
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249 This functionality should be considered beta.
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251 The `--with-xmu=no' option can be used if your vendor doesn't ship
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252 the Xmu library.
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254 The `--puresize' option can be used to change the amount of purespace
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256 parameter is deprecated and, in fact, ignored.
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258 The `--with-sound=TYPE' option specifies that XEmacs should be built
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259 with sound support. Native (`--with-sound=native') sound support is
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260 currently available only on Sun SparcStations, SGI's, HP9000s, and
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261 systems (such as Linux) with soundcard.h. Network Audio Support (NAS)
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262 (`--with-sound=nas' or `--with-sound=both') is an extension to X that
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263 you may or may not have for your system. For NAS, you will probably
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264 need to provide the paths to the nas include and library directories
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265 to configure. If `--with-sound' is not specified, `configure' will
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266 attempt to determine if your configuration supports native sound and
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267 define --with-sound for you. If your native sound library is not in a
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268 standard location you can specify it with the `--native-sound-lib=LIB'
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269 flag. For Linux, `/dev/audio' is required for SunAudio files and
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270 `/dev/dsp' is required for raw data and WAVE format files.
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272 The `--rel-alloc' option can be used to either enable or disable use
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273 of the relocating allocator. Turning on --rel-alloc will allow XEmacs
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274 to return unused memory to the operating system, thereby reducing its
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275 memory footprint. However, it may make XEmacs runs more slowly,
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276 especially if your system's `mmap' implemntation is missing or
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277 inefficient. Generally, it's best to go with the default
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278 configuration for your system. You can tweak this based on how you
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279 use XEmacs, and the memory and cpu resources available on your system.
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281 The `--use-system-malloc' option can be use to either enable or
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283 default configuration for your system. Note that on many systems
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284 using the system malloc disables the use of the relocating allocator.
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287 version of malloc. Debug Malloc is not included with XEmacs, is
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288 intended for use only by the developers and may be obtained from
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289 <URL:http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/>.
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292 by the developers. `--debug' adds code to be compiled in for
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293 performing various tests. `--error-checking' adds additional tests to
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294 many of the commonly used macros.
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295
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296 The `--verbose' and `--extra-verbose' options are intended for use
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297 only by the developers. `--verbose' causes the results of all
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298 configure tests to be displayed. `--extra-verbose' displays
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299 additional information, useful for debugging. Another help for
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300 determining configure failures is the file `config.log', which
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301 contains the results of the compile and link tests used by configure.
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302
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303 The `--with-mule' option enables (MUlti-Lingual Emacs) support, needed
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304 to suport non-Latin-1 (including Asian) languages. The Mule support
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305 is not yet as stable or efficient as the `Latin1' support. The
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306 following options require Mule support:
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308 The `--with-xim' option enables use of the X11 XIM mechanism to allow
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309 an input method to input text into XEmacs. The input method is shared
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310 among all the X applications sharing an X display and using the same
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311 language. The XIM support comes in two flavors: `motif' and `xlib'.
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312 The Motif support (the XmIm* functions) is preferred when available.
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313 The xlib XIM support does not work quite as well. The XIM support has
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314 been known to cause crashes due to bugs in X11, so it defaults to `no'
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315 except on Solaris, where it is known to be stable.
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317 The `--with-canna' option enables the use of the Canna Japanese input
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321 Wnn multi-language input method. `--with-wnn' is for compiling with
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322 Wnn-4.2, the free version of WNN. This is beta level code.
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323 `--with-wnn6' is for compiling against WNN6, the commercial version
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324 of WNN. This is alpha level code and very lightly tested at present.
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327 just creates the files that influence those things: `./src/config.h',
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331 in conjunction with movemail. As of XEmacs 20.1, movemail is identical
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332 to the one used in Emacs.
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335 creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the
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336 same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after
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337 disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'.
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338
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339 4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right
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340 for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with XEmacs
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341 Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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342 itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES,
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343 rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example,
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344
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345 (setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")
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346
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347 is how you would override the default value of the variable
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348 news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews").
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349
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350 Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
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351 variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the
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352 variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are
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353 doing, you'll make a mistake.
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354
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355 Things may malfunction if the variable `directory-abbrev-alist' is not set
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356 up to translate "temporary" automounter mount points into the canonical
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357 form. The default value of this variable contains the translation
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358
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359 ("^/tmp_mnt/" . "/")
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360
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361 meaning translate "/tmp_mnt/net/FOO" into "/net/FOO", which is appropriate
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362 for the default configuration of the Sun automounter, but which may be
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363 inappropriate for different vendor's automounters, or if you have customized
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364 your mount-point names.
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365
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366 5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs
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367 Lisp code you want XEmacs to load before it is dumped out. Use
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368 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
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369 documentation strings to be in the lib-src/DOC file (see
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370 src/Makefile.in.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all
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371 else, use site-init.el.
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372
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373 If you set load-path to a different value in site-init.el or
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374 site-load.el, XEmacs will use *precisely* that value when it starts up
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375 again. If you do this, you are on your own!
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376
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377 Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must
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378 not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look
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379 something up in the system's password and user information database.
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380 See `./PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects.
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381
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382 The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not
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383 need to create them if you have nothing to put in them.
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384
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385 6) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may
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386 wish to add to various termcap entries. The files `./etc/termcap.ucb'
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387 and `./etc/termcap.dat' may already contain appropriately-modified
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388 entries.
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389
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390 7) Run `make' in the top directory of the XEmacs distribution to finish
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391 building XEmacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
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392 named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
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393 copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
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394 directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
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395
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396 Or you can "install" the executable and the other XEmacs into their
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397 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, XEmacs's files
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398 are installed in the following directories:
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399
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400 By default, XEmacs installs its files in the following directories:
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401
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402 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
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403 `xemacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',
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404 `gnuclient', `gnudoit', `gnuattach', and `rcs-checkin'.
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405
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406 `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp libraries;
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407 `VERSION' stands for the number of the XEmacs version
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408 you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.14'. Since
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409 the lisp libraries change from one version of XEmacs to
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410 another, including the version number in the path
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411 allows you to have several versions of XEmacs installed
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412 at the same time; this means that you don't have to
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413 make XEmacs unavailable while installing a new version.
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414
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415 XEmacs searches for its lisp files in these
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416 directories, and then in
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417 `/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/*'.
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418
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419 `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/etc' holds the XEmacs tutorial, the
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420 `yow' database, and other architecture-independent
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421 files XEmacs might need while running. VERSION is as
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422 specified for `.../lisp'.
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423
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424 `/usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock' contains files indicating who is
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425 editing what, so XEmacs can detect editing clashes
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426 between users.
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427
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428 `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
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429 programs used by XEmacs that users are not expected to
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430 run themselves, and the DOC file. `VERSION' is the
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431 number of the XEmacs version you are installing, and
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432 `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
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433 `configure' program to identify the architecture and
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434 operating system of your machine, like
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435 `mips-dec-ultrix' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these
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436 files are specific to the version of XEmacs, operating
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437 system, and architecture in use, including the
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438 configuration name in the path allows you to have
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439 several versions of XEmacs for any mix of machines and
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440 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
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441 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
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442 share the file system XEmacs is installed on.
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443
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444 `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/info' holds the on-line documentation
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445 for XEmacs, known as "info files".
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446
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447 `/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
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448 in `/usr/local/bin'.
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449
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450 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
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451 install XEmacs's libraries and data files or where XEmacs should search
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452 for its lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of
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453 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
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454 information on this.
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455
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456 8) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox files,
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457 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
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458 to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe.
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459 The setuid/setgid bits need not be set on any other XEmacs-related
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460 executables.
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461
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462 9) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
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463 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
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464 that `configure' created (so you can compile XEmacs for a different
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465 configuration), type `make distclean'.
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466
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467
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468 MAKE VARIABLES
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469
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470 You can change where the build process installs XEmacs and its data
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471 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
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472 command line. For example, if you type
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473
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474 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
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475
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476 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the XEmacs
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477 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
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478 `/usr/local/bin'.
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479
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480 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
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481
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482 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
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483 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
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484
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485 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
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486 read-only data files that XEmacs refers to while it runs; it
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487 defaults to /usr/local/lib. We create the following
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488 subdirectories under `datadir':
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489 - `xemacs-VERSION/lisp', containing the XEmacs lisp libraries, and
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490
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491 - `xemacs-VERSION/etc', containing the XEmacs tutorial and the
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492 `yow' database.
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493 `VERSION' is the number of the XEmacs version you are installing,
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494 like `18.59' or `19.14'. Since these files vary from one version
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495 of XEmacs to another, including the version number in the path
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496 allows you to have several versions of XEmacs installed at the
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497 same time; this means that you don't have to make XEmacs
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498 unavailable while installing a new version.
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499
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500 `statedir' indicates where to put architecture-independent data files
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501 that XEmacs modifies while it runs; it defaults to
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502 /usr/local/lib as well. We create the following
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503 subdirectories under `statedir':
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504 - `xemacs/lock', containing files indicating who is editing
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505 what, so XEmacs can detect editing clashes between
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506 users.
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507
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508 `libdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
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509 XEmacs refers to as it runs; it too defaults to `/usr/local/lib'.
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510 We create the following subdirectories under `libdir':
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511 - `xemacs-VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
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512 programs used by XEmacs that users are not expected to run
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513 themselves and the DOC file.
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514 `VERSION' is the number of the XEmacs version you are installing,
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515 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
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516 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
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517 system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
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518 `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
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519 of XEmacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
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520 the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
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521 versions of XEmacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
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522 installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
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523 different kinds of machines share the file system XEmacs is
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524 installed on.
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525
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526 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
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527 XEmacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/info'.
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528
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529 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for XEmacs and its
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530 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
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531 `/usr/local/man/man1'.
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532
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533 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of XEmacs; instead,
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534 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
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535 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
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536 `statedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
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537 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
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538 by default.
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539
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540 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
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541 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
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542 By including
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543 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
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544 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
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545 to place all of the XEmacs data files in the appropriate
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546 directories under that path.
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547
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548 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
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549 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
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550 path variables - `bindir' and `libdir'.
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551
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552 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
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553 GNU software; here are some variables specific to XEmacs.
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554
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555 `lispdir' indicates where XEmacs installs and expects its lisp
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556 libraries. Its default value, based on `datadir' (see above),
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557 is `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/lisp' (where `VERSION' is as
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558 described above).
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559
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560 `sitelispdir' indicates where XEmacs should search for lisp libraries
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561 specific to your site. XEmacs checks them in order before
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562 checking `lispdir'. Its default value, based on `datadir'
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563 (see above), is `/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp'.
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564
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565 `etcdir' indicates where XEmacs should install and expect the rest of
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566 its architecture-independent data, like the tutorial and yow
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567 database. Its default value, based on `datadir'
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568 (see above), is `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/etc' (where
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569 `VERSION' is as described above).
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570
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571 `lockdir' indicates the directory where XEmacs keeps track of its
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572 locking information. Its default value, based on `statedir'
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573 (see above), is `/usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock'.
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574
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575 `archlibdir' indicates where XEmacs installs and expects the
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576 executable files and other architecture-dependent data it uses
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577 while running. Its default value, based on `libdir' (see
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578 above), is `/usr/local/lib/xemacs-VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
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579 (where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above).
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580
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581 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
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582 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
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583 xemacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
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584 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
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585 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
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586 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
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587 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
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588
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589 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
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590 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
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591 when running make in the subdirectories.
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592
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593
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594 CONFIGURATION BY HAND
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595
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596 Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the
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597 following steps.
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598
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599 1) Copy `./src/config.h.in' to `./src/config.h'.
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600
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601 2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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602 use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
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603 see which operating system and architecture description files from
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604 `src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
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605 `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include
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606 the appropriate system and architecture description files.
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607
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608 2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
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609 you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
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610 files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
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611 changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
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612 redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
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613
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614 3) If you're going to use the make utility to build XEmacs, you will
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615 still need to run `configure' first, giving the appropriate values for
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616 the variables in the sections entitled "Things `configure' Might Edit"
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617 and "Where To Install Things." Note that you may only need to change
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618 the variables `prefix' and `exec_prefix', since the rest of the
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619 variables have reasonable defaults based on them. For each Makefile
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620 variable of this type, there is a corresponding configure option; for
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621 example, to change the location of the lock directory, you might use
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622
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623 ./configure --lockdir=/nfs/xemacslock
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624
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625 The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
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626 program. However, since XEmacs has configuration requirements that
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185
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627 autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses a marriage of custom-baked
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0
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628 configuration code and autoconf macros. New versions of autoconf
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629 could very well break this arrangement, so it may be wise to avoid
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630 rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when possible.
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631
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632
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633 BUILDING XEMACS BY HAND
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634
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635 Once XEmacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
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636 the following steps.
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637
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638 1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
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639 `./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.h.in', changing
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640 the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
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641
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642 2) Cd to `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates executables named
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643 `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile' and `digest-doc'
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644 and `test-distrib'. And others.
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645
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646 3) Cd to `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in the `./lisp'
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647 and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
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648 `../lib-src'.
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649
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650 This creates a file `./src/xemacs' which is the runnable XEmacs,
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651 assigning it a new build version number by incrementing the build
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652 version stored in `./lisp/version.el'.
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653
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654 It also creates a file in `./lib-src' whose name is `DOC' followed by
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655 the current XEmacs version. This file contains documentation strings
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656 for all the functions in XEmacs. Each time you run make to make a new
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657 xemacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
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658 file for an XEmacs version as long as you keep using that XEmacs
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659 version.
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660
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661
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662 INSTALLATION BY HAND
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663
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664 The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
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665 directory of the XEmacs distribution.
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666
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667 1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
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668 in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
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669
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670 Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
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671 - The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `env', `fakemail', `hexl',
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672 `movemail', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup', and `yow' are used by
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673 XEmacs; they do need to be copied.
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674 - The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', `rcs2log',
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675 `gnuclient', `gnudoit', and `gnuattach' are intended to be run
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676 by users; they are handled below.
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677 - The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
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678 used in building XEmacs, and are not needed any more.
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679 - The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
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680 a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
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681
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682 2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
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683 `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
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684 destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
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685 probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the XEmacs
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686 distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
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687 file contains an appropriate menu entry for the XEmacs info.
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688
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689 3) Create a directory for XEmacs to use for clash detection, named as
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690 indicated by the PATH_LOCK macro in `./src/paths.h'.
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691
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692 4) Copy `./src/xemacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
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693 in users' search paths. `./src/xemacs' has an alternate name
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694 `./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
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695 `/usr/local/bin/xemacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
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696 of installing different versions.
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697
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698 You can delete `./src/temacs'.
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699
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700 5) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', `rcs2log',
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701 `gnuclient', `gnudoit', and `gnuattach' from `./lib-src' to
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702 `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are intended for users to run.
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703
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704 6) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for xemacs, ctags, etags, and gnuserv
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705 into the appropriate man directories.
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707 7) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `xemacs', are not
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708 used by XEmacs once it is built. The source would be handy for
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709 debugging.
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710
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712 PROBLEMS
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714 See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various
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