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changeset 5704:37b107e878b8
More corrections to INSTALL by Robert Royer.
author | Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> |
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date | Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:35:44 +0900 |
parents | 6b027725e340 |
children | 9c9b07d40f20 |
files | ChangeLog INSTALL |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Fri Dec 28 02:29:16 2012 +0900 +++ b/ChangeLog Fri Dec 28 12:35:44 2012 +0900 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2012-12-27 Robert D. Royar <xemacs@royar.org> + + Minor additions by Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>. + + * INSTALL: correct typographical errors; update + version numbers provided in Running Make section; + change default datadir reference to /usr/local/share + to match all other references to datadir's subdirectories; + change "can not" to "cannot". + 2012-11-04 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> * INSTALL: Reorganize and update.
--- a/INSTALL Fri Dec 28 02:29:16 2012 +0900 +++ b/INSTALL Fri Dec 28 12:35:44 2012 +0900 @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ Modern systems generally have more than enough RAM and virtual memory to run XEmacs well. If you run into an "insufficient memory" error when building -or on the first execution, see the 'PROBLEMS' file. In sufficient stack -space is a separate problem, also address in 'PROBLEMS'. +or on the first execution, see the 'PROBLEMS' file. Insufficient stack +space is a separate problem, also addressed in 'PROBLEMS'. Building XEmacs requires about 100 Mb of disk space (including the XEmacs sources). Once installed, XEmacs occupies about 200 MB in the file system @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ doesn't seem to have all the corresponding features, check with the newsgroup 'comp.emacs.xemacs' or the mailing list 'xemacs-beta@xemacs.org'. -SELECTING configure OPTIONS +SELECTING CONFIGURE OPTIONS =========================== Options are generally of the form `--with-FEATURE' to use a feature or @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ `/usr/local/share/xemacs-VERSION/lisp' holds the basic Emacs Lisp libraries (including core implementations of many Lisp primitives); `VERSION' stands for the number of the XEmacs version - you are installing, like `19.14' or `21.5.31'. Since + you are installing, like `21.4.22' or `21.5-b32'. Since the lisp libraries change from one version of XEmacs to another, including the version number in the path allows you to have several versions of XEmacs installed @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ ======== The most common problem is that you forgot to read and follow the directions -for installing bootstrap packages in the FAQ. You can not have a normal +for installing bootstrap packages in the FAQ. You cannot have a normal XEmacs without downloading some additional packages. See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various problems @@ -760,17 +760,19 @@ `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent read-only data files that XEmacs refers to while it runs; it - defaults to /usr/local/data. We create the following + defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following subdirectories under `datadir': + - `xemacs-VERSION/lisp', containing the XEmacs lisp libraries, and - `xemacs-VERSION/etc', containing the XEmacs tutorial and the `yow' database. + `VERSION' is the number of the XEmacs version you are installing, - like `18.59' or `19.14'. Since these files vary from one version - of XEmacs to another, including the version number in the path - allows you to have several versions of XEmacs installed at the - same time; this means that you don't have to make XEmacs + like `21.4.22' or `21.5-b32'. Since these files vary from one + version of XEmacs to another, including the version number in the + path allows you to have several versions of XEmacs installed at + the same time; this means that you don't have to make XEmacs unavailable while installing a new version. `datarootdir' indicates where to put the documentation. (Usually, @@ -884,7 +886,7 @@ in the subdirectories. Using GNU Make allows for simultaneous builds with and without the --srcdir -option. +option (see the section Running Configure). MAIL LOCKING ============ @@ -1177,6 +1179,10 @@ configuration changes. Not all systems need this option; it's best to avoid using it if you can. +To specify multiple directories in these commands, use a list delimited by +spaces, colons, or commas. You will need to protect space-delimited lists +from shell parsing by quoting them. + If you haven't built XEmacs 21.5 recently, the change from the configure script based on Autoconf 2.13 can be a shock. Appendix: Correspondence to Old Configure Options (at the end of this document) contains a list of old