sections of this guide will help you do that, so please refer to those
sections if you need to.
- 1. Unpacking the Emacs 23.2 release requires about 170 MB of free
- disk space. Building Emacs uses about another 60 MB of space.
- The final installed Emacs uses about 120 MB of disk space.
+ 1. Unpacking the Emacs 24.1 release requires about 180 MB of free
+ disk space. Building Emacs uses about another 70 MB of space.
+ The final installed Emacs uses about 110 MB of disk space.
This includes the space-saving that comes from automatically
compressing the Lisp source files on installation.
* Complex Text Layout support libraries
-Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db", "libm17n-flt", "libotf"
-to correctly display such complex scripts as Indic and Khmer.
-On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux, these libraries may be
-already present or available as additional packages. Note that if
-there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
-time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
-corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will contain
-header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can download and
-build libraries from sources.
+On GNU and Unix systems, Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db",
+"libm17n-flt", "libotf" to correctly display such complex scripts as
+Indic and Khmer, and also for scripts that require Arabic shaping
+support (Arabic and Farsi). On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux,
+these libraries may be already present or available as additional
+packages. Note that if there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package,
+for use at compilation time rather than run time, you will need that
+as well as the corresponding run time package; typically the dev
+package will contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise,
+you can download and build libraries from sources.
The sources of these libraries are available by anonymous CVS from
cvs.m17n.org.
because you lack some other packages on which m17n-lib depends, try to
configure it with the option "--without-gui".
+Note that Emacs cannot support complex scripts on a TTY, unless the
+terminal includes such a support.
+
* intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
+Use --with-wide-int to implement Emacs values with the type 'long long',
+even on hosts where a narrower type would do. With this option, on a
+typical 32-bit host, Emacs integers have 62 bits instead of 30.
+
The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
- Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin