GNU Emacs Installation Guide
-Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2012
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2013
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
GNU/Linux distribution that you use, and the options that you want to
configure Emacs with. On Debian-based systems, you can install all the
packages needed to build the installed version of Emacs with a command
-like `apt-get build-dep emacs23'. On Red Hat systems, the
+like `apt-get build-dep emacs24'. On Red Hat systems, the
corresponding command is `yum-builddep emacs'.
Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
-Use --disable-features if you want to build small executable with
-the minimal dependencies from an external libraries, at the cost
-of disabling most of the features which are enabled by default.
-Using --disable-features is equivalent to --without-sound --without-dbus
---without-libotf --without-selinux --without-xft --without-gsettings
---without-gnutls --without-rsvg --without-xml2 --without-gconf
---without-imagemagick --without-m17n-flt --without-jpeg --without-tiff
---without-gif --without-png --without-gpm. Note that --disable-features
-leaves X support enabled, and using GTK2 or GTK3 toolkit creates a lot
-of library dependencies. So if you want to build small executable with
-the very basic X support, use --disable-features --with-x-toolkit=no.
-For the smallest possible executable without X, use --disable-features
---without-x.
+Use --without-all if you want to build a small executable with the minimal
+dependencies on external libraries, at the cost of disabling most of the
+features that are normally enabled by default. Using --without-all is
+equivalent to --without-sound --without-dbus --without-libotf
+--without-selinux --without-xft --without-gsettings --without-gnutls
+--without-rsvg --without-xml2 --without-gconf --without-imagemagick
+--without-m17n-flt --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif
+--without-png --without-gpm. Note that --without-all leaves X support
+enabled, and using the GTK2 or GTK3 toolkit creates a lot of library
+dependencies. So if you want to build a small executable with very basic
+X support, use --without-all --with-x-toolkit=no. For the smallest possible
+executable without X, use --without-all --without-x. If you want to build
+with just a few features enabled, you can combine --without-all with
+--with-FEATURE. For example, you can use --without-all --with-dbus
+to build with DBus support and nothing more.
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
path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
-GNU software; the following variable is specific to Emacs.
+GNU software; the following variables are specific to Emacs.
`archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
(where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above).
+`GZIP_PROG' is the name of the executable that compresses installed info,
+ manual, and .el files. It defaults to gzip. Setting it to
+ the empty string suppresses compression.
+
Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard, just a matter
of editing in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs.
-The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the `autoconf'
-program. You need at least the version of autoconf specified in the
-AC_PREREQ(...) command to rebuild `configure' from `configure.ac'.
+The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the
+`autogen.sh' script, which checks that `autoconf' and other build
+tools are sufficiently up to date and then runs the build tools.
BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND