From 4e98f5a60888043c654fb724ba54a19af0168fac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Love Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:17:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Tweaks to configure instructions and saving space. --- INSTALL | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3c90a7e88e..4d2766a722 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work. SOURCE-DIR/configure - where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. + where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. This + may not work unless you use GNU make. 4. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details about the system configuration. Read those details carefully @@ -55,8 +56,8 @@ that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work. to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below. If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as - Xpm, jpeg, etc., refer to the subsection "Image support - libraries", below. + Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection + "Image support libraries", below. If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed. @@ -90,6 +91,10 @@ that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work. make clean + You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files + and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc + versions. + ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES @@ -348,8 +353,8 @@ preprocessor, CFLAGS are compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used when linking, LIBS are libraries to link against, and CC is the command which invokes the compiler. -Here's an example of a `configure' invocation which uses these -variables: +Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like +shell such as Bash, which uses these variables: CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \ CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure @@ -842,7 +847,7 @@ sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed -intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.) +intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.) The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows. -- 2.39.2