GNU Emacs Installation Guide
-Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 Free software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1992, 94, 96, 97, 2000, 01, 02 Free software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for copying permissions.
with some non-default options), always clean the source
directories before running `configure' again:
- make distclean
+ make distclean
./configure
5. Invoke the `make' program:
* intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
-The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
-order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
-character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
-it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If you do
-have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters don't look
-right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the intlfonts
-distribution might look better.
+The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
+that Emacs can use to display international characters. If you see a
+non-ASCII character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have
+a font for it. You might find one in the intlfonts distribution. If
+you do have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters
+don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the
+intlfonts distribution might look better.
The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
package for printing international characters. The file
Here's the list of these optional libraries, and the URLs where they
can be found:
- . libXaw3d for fancy 3D-style
+ . libXaw3d for fancy 3D-style
scroll bars: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/
. libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
- Get version 3.4k or later, which lets Emacs
+ Get version 3.4k or later, which lets Emacs
use its own color allocation functions.
. libpng for PNG: ftp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
. libz (for PNG): http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
Get version 6b -- 6a is reported to fail in
Emacs.
. libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
- . libungif for GIF:
+ . libungif for GIF:
http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
Ensure you get version 4.1.0b1 or higher of libungif -- a bug in
4.1.0 can crash Emacs.
* Extra fonts
+At first, Emacs does not include fonts and does not install them. You
+must do this yourself.
+
To take proper advantage of Emacs 21's mule-unicode charsets, you need
-a Unicode font. For information on Unicode fonts for X, see
-<URL:http://czyborra.com/unifont/>,
-<URL:http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/> and
+a suitable font. For `Unicode' (ISO 10646) fonts for X, see
+<URL:http://dvdeug.dhis.org/unifont.html> (packaged in Debian),
+<URL:http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/> (packaged in Debian). (In
+recent Debian versions, there is an extensive `misc-fixed' iso10646-1
+in the default X installation.) Perhaps also see
<URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.
+
<URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> has basic fonts for Emacs's
ISO-8859 charsets.
XFree86 release 4 (from <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/> and mirrors)
contains font support for most, if not all, of the charsets that Emacs
-supports. The font files should be usable separately with older X
-releases.
+currently supports, including iso10646-1 encoded fonts for use with
+the mule-unicode charsets. The font files should also be usable with
+older X releases. Note that XFree 4 contains many iso10646-1 fonts
+with minimal character repertoires, which can cause problems -- see
+etc/PROBLEMS.
+
+BDF fonts etl-unicode.tar.gz used by ps-print and ps-mule to print
+Unicode characters are available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/>
+and <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>.
+
+* GNU/Linux development packages
+
+Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by
+default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but
+not those you need to compile it. For example, to compile Emacs with
+X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development'
+package. For example, in April 2003, the package names to install
+were `XFree86-devel' and `Xaw3d-devel' on RedHat. On Debian, the
+packages necessary to build the installed version should be
+sufficient; they can be installed using `apt-get build-dep emacs21' in
+Debian 3 and above.
DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
-least 2.5 MB and can reach 80 MB or more. If the swapping space is
+least 2.8 MB and can reach 100 MB or more. If the swapping space is
insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when
running the final dumped Emacs.
-
-Building Emacs requires about 130 MB of disk space (including the
-Emacs sources) Once installed, Emacs occupies about 70 MB in the file
+
+Building Emacs requires about 140 MB of disk space (including the
+Emacs sources) Once installed, Emacs occupies about 77 MB in the file
system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
the building and installation take place in different directories,
-then the installation procedure momentarily requires 130+70 MB.
+then the installation procedure momentarily requires 140+77 MB.
2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
-TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
+TOOLKIT is `athena', `motif' or `gtk' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
`athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with
shared libraries. A free implementation of Motif, called LessTif, is
available ftom <http://www.lesstif.org>. Compiling with LessTif or
installed (see "Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d
availability).
+If `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' is specified, 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 2.0 or
+newer is required for Emacs.
+
The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify
`--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search
--without-png for PNG image support
Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable LessTif/Motif or Xaw3d
-scroll bars. --without-xim disables the use of X Input Methods, and
---disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on systems
-which support that.
+scroll bars.
+
+Use --without-xim to inhibit the default use of X Input Methods. In
+this case, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn on use of XIM.
+
+Use --disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on
+systems which support that.
+
+Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
configuration), type `make distclean'. If you don't need some, or all
of the input methods from the Leim package, you can remove the
-unneeded files in the leim/quail, leim/skk, and leim/skk-dic
-subdirectories of your site's lisp directory (usually
-/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
+unneeded files in the leim subdirectories of your site's lisp
+directory (usually /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
- `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
- themselves.
+ themselves.
`VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
`configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
just a matter of substitution.
The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
-program. You need version 2.8 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild
+program. You need version 2.51 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild
`configure'.
BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
-- The programs `cvtmail', `emacsserver', `fakemail', `hexl',
+- The programs `cvtmail', `fakemail', `hexl',
`movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
- The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
carry prominent notices stating who last changed them,
and that any new or changed statements about the activities
of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation.
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