Emacs machines list
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- 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X
- For installation on all versions of the Mac OS platform, see the file
- mac/INSTALL.
+ For installation instructions see the file nextstep/INSTALL.
Apple PowerPC Macintosh running GNU/Linux
Changes merged in 19.1. Systems before 2/A/0 may fail to compile etags.c
due to a compiler bug.
-DECstation (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf)
-
- This machine is the older Mips-based DECstation.
- Emacs should now work on the Alpha CPU.
-
- 19.25 works on Ultrix 4.2. The 19.26 pretest was reported to work
- on Ultrix 4.2a and on 4.4.
-
- One user reported 19.25 did not work at all with --with-x-toolkit
- using X11R5 patch level 10, but worked ok with X11R5 pl26.
-
- See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix.
- Note that this is a MIPS machine.
-
- For Ultrix versions 4.1 or earlier, you may need to define
- SYSTEM_MALLOC in `src/m/pmax.h', because XvmsAlloc.o in libX11.a seems
- to insist on defining malloc itself.
-
- For Ultrix versions prior to 4.0, you may need to delete
- the definition of START_FILES from `src/m/pmax.h'.
-
Motorola Delta 147 (m68k-motorola-sysv)
The EMacs 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
Changes merged in 20.3.
-Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
-
- Patches have been merged in 19.31.
-
-HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
-
- The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
- which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
- and support for it would be difficult to implement.
-
HP 9000 series 700 or 800 (Spectrum) (hppa1.0-hp-hpux or hppa1.1-hp-hpux
or ...hpux9shr)
As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
- If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
- ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
- as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
-
If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
system.
-Intel 386 (i386-*-bsdi2, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
- i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
- i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
- i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2, i386-*-cygwin,
- i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
+Intel 386 (i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
+ i386-*-sol2.4, i386-intsys-sysv,
+ i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2, i386-*-cygwin,
i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
(but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
- When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
- version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
- i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
Use i386-*-cygwin for Cygwin; Emacs builds as of version 22.1, in both X11
and non-X11 modes. (The Cygwin site has source and binaries for 21.2.)
19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
The reasons are not yet known.
- Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
- In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
- Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
- to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
- configure to run another shell such as bash.
-
- For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
- On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
+ On NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
- Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
- for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
- and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
-
- If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
- to prevent certain faulty optimization.
-
- On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
- to config.h.
-
- On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
- with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
- version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
- Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
- with GCC.
-
- On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
- of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
-
- There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
- on V.3.
-
Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
to config.h to solve this problem.
-Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
+Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix6.*)
Emacs 21.3 is reported to work on IRIX 6.5.x.
could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
whether that fixes the problem.
-Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
-
- The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
- parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
-
- Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
- there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
- wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
- except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
- don't exist.
-
- Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
- Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
-
- Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
- mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
-
- If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
- the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
- the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
-
- If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
- line in etc/Makefile:
-
- CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
-
- Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
- zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
- the system to give a proper signal.
-
- In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
- Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
- great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
- debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
-
- dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
- on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
- general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
-
NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
- On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
- reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
- subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
- Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
- slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
- likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
- rather than an Emacs bug.
-
On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
/usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
(now remapped as part of the text). These are never
swapped in.
+SuperH (sh[34]*-*-linux-gnu)
+
+ Emacs 23.0.60 was reported to work on GNU/Linux (October 2008).
+ Tested on a little-endian sh4 system (cpu type SH7751R) running
+ Gentoo Linux 2008.0.
+
Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
Changes merged in 19.1.
chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
-Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
- Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
- System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
- VMS (vax-dec-vms)
+Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3)
Works.
-
- See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
-
- 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
-
- 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
-
- Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
- Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
- won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
- port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
-
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Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
-SCO Unix
-
- If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
- /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
- lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
- sendmail if it exists.
-
- If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
- SMAIL in config.h.
-
System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
#undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
(Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
-VMS (vmsM.N)
-
- Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
- Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
- won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
- port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
-
- Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
- distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
- Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
-
Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
PFU A-series (m/pfa50.h)
Plexus running System V.2 (m/plexus.h)
pyramid. (m/pyramid.h)
- sh3el (m/sh3el.h)
Bull SPS-7 (m/sps7.h)
Hitachi SR2001/SR2201 (m/sr2k.h)
Stride (m/stride.h)
Sun3 machines (m/sun3*)
Integrated Solutions 386 machine (m/is386.h)
Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' -- m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3
- Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 -- m68k-hp-bsd or m68k-hp-hpux or m68k-hp-netbsd
+ Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
+ Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 on some platforms -- m68k-hp-bsd or
+ m68k-hp-hpux; note m68k-*-netbsd* still works
IBM PS/2 -- i386-ibm-aix1.1 or i386-ibm-aix1.2
GEC 63 -- local-gec63-usg5.2
Tandem Integrity S2 -- mips-tandem-sysv
System V rel 2.2 -- usg5.2.2
System V rel 3 -- usg5.3
Ultrix -- bsd4.3
+ VMS (s/vms.h)
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