-* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic AND MAC OS X -*- outline -*-
+* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS X -*- outline -*-
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- 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS X
must install as root using the sudo command. However, it is not
recommended; see the notes section below for more details.
-The --enable-carbon-app specifies that the carbon GUI application
-should be installed into /Application. If you want it to install in a
-different location, specify --enable-carbon-app=<mydir>
-
-If you have X Window installed on your Mac and you are building Emacs
-to run under Carbon and not X Window, you need to type `./configure
---without-x' instead of `./configure'.
+The --enable-carbon-app specifies that the Carbon GUI application
+should be installed into /Applications. If you want it to install in
+a different location, specify --enable-carbon-app=<mydir>
You can type `make bootstrap' instead of `make' to rebuild everything,
including byte-compiling the Lisp files.
-k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the
existing info files.
-After Emacs is installed, you can run it by typing `emacs -nw' from a
-terminal (make sure your path contains /usr/local/bin) or by
-double-clicking on /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. To start
-Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to the
-executable in the bundle, i.e.,
+After Emacs is installed, you can run a text-only terminal version by
+typing `emacs' from a terminal (make sure your path contains
+/usr/local/bin) or a GUI application by double-clicking on
+/Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. Even in the terminal version,
+some Carbon-specific functions such as `mac-set-file-creator' are
+still meaningful.
- /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
+To start Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to
+the executable in the bundle, i.e.,
+
+ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources
-correctly. You may want to create a symlink or alias to this path to
-quickly access both the terminal and GUI versions.
+correctly. You may want to create an alias to this path to quickly
+access both the terminal and GUI versions. You can specify some
+standard Emacs options when invoking Emacs in this way.
-If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window,
-instead of typing `./configure' above, type
+Emacs on Mac OS X is not configured to use X11 unless either it is
+requested or the use of Carbon is disabled explicitly. So, if you are
+building Emacs to run on X Window System, you need to specify like:
- ./configure --without-carbon --with-x
+ ./configure --with-x
+Note that the Carbon-specific functions mentioned above are not
+available on the X11-enabled build.
-To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
-~/.termcap and log in again.
+To use colors in Terminal.app on Mac OS X 10.1, put the following
+lines in the file ~/.termcap and log in again.
-----
# added ANSI color
a script that will greatly simplify the process. It is called
make-package and it is contained in this directory. It will generate
a disc image containing a installer bundle. By default the installer
-will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the carbon
+will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the Carbon
application in /Applications. Typical usage would be
./make-package
For usage of other options, use the --help option.
-* BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic
-
-You can use MPW-GM (Aug. 2001) to build Emacs. MPW-GM can be
-downloaded free of charge from Apple.
-
-### IMPORTANT ### You can use StuffIt Expander to decompress and untar
-the distribution. However, you *must* set the radio button in the
-Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to
-"Never". Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted.
-
-(Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
-distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
-
- http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/Resources/GNU-Fonts.smi.bin
-
-To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to
-...:emacs:mac: and build the target Emacs of the make file
-makefile.MPW. I.e., execute the commands
-
- make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
- Emacs.MakeScript
-
-The above commands create an executable that uses the Carbon API.
-The non-Carbon version can also be created by replacing all the
-occurrences of `Emacs' above with `NonCarbon'. Not that the
-non-Carbon version does not support some features such as file
-dialogs, drag-and-drop, and Unicode menus.
-
-Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs MPW) can be launched where it
-is created.
+Note: due to the problem "Installing to a directory with non-ASCII
+characters in the name fails" mentioned in etc/PROBLEMS, you may not
+move a self-contained Emacs.app application bundle to a non-ASCII
+directory.
* NOTES
-Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2 (but
-only tested on 9.2.2), and Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.4.
+Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.5.
You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
intermediate files.
-Under Mac OS Classic, there is no support for building the LEIM
-directory. However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform
-and transferred to the Mac.
-
On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with
system software updates possibly overwriting the distribution. If this
is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please
Therefore, builds of Emacs are architecture specific.
Enjoy!
+
+\f
+This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.