X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/4e98f5a60888043c654fb724ba54a19af0168fac..f8ec20be1e14cc0e8470b17262d1389f8ea16e9e:/INSTALL
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4d2766a722..ae1c017c43 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -181,9 +181,13 @@ can be found:
. libpng for PNG: ftp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
. libz (for PNG): http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
. libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
+ Get version 6b -- 6a is reported to fail in
+ Emacs.
. libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
. libungif for GIF:
http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
+ Ensure you get version 4.1.0b1 or higher of libungif -- a bug in
+ 4.1.0 can crash Emacs.
Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if the
`configure' script finds them on your system, unless you supply the
@@ -192,6 +196,20 @@ these libraries won't work because some routines are missing, and
configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the
--without-LIB options to `configure'. See below for more details.
+* Extra fonts
+
+To take proper advantage of Emacs 21's mule-unicode charsets, you need
+a Unicode font. For information on Unicode fonts for X, see
+ and
+.
+ has basic fonts for Emacs's
+ISO-8859 charsets.
+
+XFree86 release 4 (from and mirrors)
+contains font support for most, if not all, of the charsets that Emacs
+supports. The font files should be usable separately with older X
+releases.
+
DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
@@ -254,8 +272,10 @@ configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
TOOLKIT is `athena' or `motif' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms for
`athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit with
shared libraries. A free implementation of Motif, called LessTif, is
-available ftom . You can get fancy 3D-style
-scroll bars, even without LessTif/Motif, if you have the Xaw3d library
+available ftom . Compiling with LessTif or
+Motif causes a standard File Selection Dialog to pop up when you type
+"C-x C-f" and similar commands. You can get fancy 3D-style scroll
+bars, even without LessTif/Motif, if you have the Xaw3d library
installed (see "Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d
availability).