X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/1d173668ca2311b561f8fa627e481a0de1e29655..e96f5cb7478070e9c91b503d6d3e881ec2ce7dd7:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 37ef6ac310..2b6f99974c 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -20,18 +20,20 @@ ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES * leim-M.N.tar.gz The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international -character scripts is distributed in a separate tar file because of its -large size. This file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz, with the same -version number as Emacs, and it unpacks into the directory -emacs-M.N/leim. Thus, if you unpack it in the same directory where -you unpacked the Emacs distribution, it fills in a subdirectory -of the Emacs distribution. - -If you have already unpacked the Leim tar file into a subdirectory of -the Emacs sources, building and installing Emacs automatically -installs the input method support as well. If you unpack the Leim tar -file into the Emacs sources after building and installing Emacs, just -build Emacs again and install it again. +character scripts is distributed in a separate tar file because it +amounts to a significant fraction of the size of the distribution. +This tar file is called leim-M.N.tar.gz, with the same version number +as Emacs, and it unpacks into the directory emacs-M.N/leim. + +You should unpack leim-M.N.tar.gz into the same directory where you +have previously unpacked the main Emacs distribution. It fills in the +contents of one subdirectory, which is present in the main Emacs +distribution only in dummy form. + +Once you have unpacked the Leim tar file into the Emacs source tree, +building and installing Emacs automatically installs the input method +support as well. If you have built Emacs without unpacking Leim +first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again. * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz @@ -50,6 +52,27 @@ each character set. The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions, in the intlfonts/README file. +* elisp-manual-M.N.tar.gz + +This distribution contains the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual which +complements the Emacs Lisp Manual. It is a good idea to install the +Emacs Lisp Reference Manual after installing Emacs, to complete the +on-line documentation of Emacs in Info. + +If you have installed Texinfo, you can install the Emacs Lisp +Reference Manual this way: + + cd elisp-manual-M.N + ./configure --prefix=PREFIXDIR + make install + +Otherwise, you can install it manually. Just copy the files elisp and +elisp-* from the elisp-manual-M.N directory to your site's info +directory (see the description of `infodir', below), and make sure +that file `dir' in this directory contains an entry like this: + + * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. + BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: @@ -311,7 +334,11 @@ to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe. 10) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different -configuration), type `make distclean'. +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/). @@ -597,7 +624,7 @@ called `leim.tgz', type this command: djtar -x leim.tgz If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts -distribution. For this, create a directory called, `fonts', under the +distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and type this: @@ -611,6 +638,18 @@ Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands: config msdos make install +To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y +directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is +the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following +command: + + make bdf INSTALLDIR=.. + +After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the +fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level +Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by +default. + Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src directories. Installing Emacs on MSDOS moves these executables to a sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory