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GNU Emacs Installation Guide
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Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
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Free software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for copying permissions.
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BASIC INSTALLATION
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The simplest way to build Emacs is to use the `configure' shell script
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which attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent
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variables and features and find the directories where various system
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headers and libraries are kept. It then creates a `Makefile' in each
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subdirectory and a `config.h' file containing system-dependent
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definitions. Running the `make' utility then builds the package for
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your system.
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Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which
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are supported by it. If this simplified procedure fails, or if you
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are using a platform such as MS-Windows, where `configure' script
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doesn't work, you might need to use various non-default options, and
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maybe perform some of the steps manually. The more detailed
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description in the rest of the sections of this guide will help you do
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that, so please refer to them if the simple procedure does not work.
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1. Make sure your system has at least 120 MB of free disk space.
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2a. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked Emacs and invoke the
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`configure' script:
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./configure
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2b. Alternatively, create a separate directory, outside the source
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directory, where you want to build Emacs, and invoke `configure'
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from there:
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SOURCE-DIR/configure
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where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. This
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may not work unless you use GNU make.
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3. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
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about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
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looking for anything suspicious, such as wrong CPU and operating
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system names, wrong places for headers or libraries, missing
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libraries that you know are installed on your system, etc.
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If you find anything wrong, you will have to pass to `configure'
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explicit machine configuration name, and one or more options
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which tell it where to find various headers and libraries; refer
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to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
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If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
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Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection
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"Image support libraries", below.
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If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
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you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
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4. If you need to run the `configure' script more than once (e.g.,
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with some non-default options), always clean the source
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directories before running `configure' again:
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make distclean
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./configure
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5. Invoke the `make' program:
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make
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6. If `make' succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs'
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in the `src' directory. You can try this program, to make sure
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it works:
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src/emacs -q
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7. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
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opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
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files into their installation directories:
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make install
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You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
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you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
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directory where you built Emacs:
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make clean
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You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files
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and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc
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versions.
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ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
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* intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
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The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
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that Emacs can use to display international characters. If you see a
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non-ASCII character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have
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a font for it. You might find one in the intlfonts distribution. If
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you do have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters
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don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the
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intlfonts distribution might look better.
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The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
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package for printing international characters. The file
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lisp/ps-mule.el defines the *.bdf font files required for printing
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each character set.
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The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
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in the intlfonts/README file.
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* Image support libraries
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Emacs needs optional libraries to be able to display images (with the
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exception of PBM and XBM images whose support is built-in).
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On some systems, particularly on GNU/Linux, these libraries may
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already be present or available as additional packages. Note that if
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there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
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time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
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corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will
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contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can
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download and build libraries from sources. None of them are vital for
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running Emacs; however, note that Emacs will not be able to use
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colored icons in the toolbar if XPM support is not compiled in.
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Here's the list of these optional libraries, and the URLs where they
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can be found:
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. libXaw3d for fancy 3D-style
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scroll bars: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/
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. libxpm for XPM: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/
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Get version 3.4k or later, which lets Emacs
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use its own color allocation functions.
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. libpng for PNG: ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/
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. libz (for PNG): http://www.zlib.net/
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. libjpeg for JPEG: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
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Get version 6b -- 6a is reported to fail in
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Emacs.
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. libtiff for TIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/
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. libungif for GIF:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/libungif
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Ensure you get version 4.1.0b1 or higher of libungif -- a bug in
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4.1.0 can crash Emacs.
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Emacs will configure itself to build with these libraries if the
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`configure' script finds them on your system, unless you supply the
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appropriate --without-LIB option. In some cases, older versions of
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these libraries won't work because some routines are missing, and
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configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the
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--without-LIB options to `configure'. See below for more details.
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* Extra fonts
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The Emacs distribution does not include fonts and does not install
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them. You must do that yourself.
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To take proper advantage of Emacs 21's mule-unicode charsets, you need
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a suitable font. For `Unicode' (ISO 10646) fonts for X, see
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<URL:http://czyborra.com/unifont/> (packaged in Debian),
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<URL:http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/> (packaged in Debian). (In
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recent Debian versions, there is an extensive `misc-fixed' iso10646-1
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in the default X installation.) Perhaps also see
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<URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.
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<URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> has basic fonts for Emacs's
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ISO-8859 charsets.
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XFree86 release 4 (from <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/> and mirrors)
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contains font support for most, if not all, of the charsets that Emacs
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currently supports, including iso10646-1 encoded fonts for use with
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the mule-unicode charsets. The font files should also be usable with
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older X releases. Note that XFree 4 contains many iso10646-1 fonts
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with minimal character repertoires, which can cause problems -- see
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etc/PROBLEMS.
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BDF Unicode fonts etl-unicode.tar.gz are available from
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<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and
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<URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/mirror/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>. These
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fonts can also be used by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode
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characters.
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Finally, the Web pages <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/index.html>
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and <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/resources.html> list a large
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number of free Unicode fonts.
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* GNU/Linux development packages
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Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by
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default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but
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not those you need to compile it. For example, to compile Emacs with
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X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development'
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package. For example, in April 2003, the package names to install
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were `XFree86-devel' and `Xaw3d-devel' on RedHat. On Debian, the
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packages necessary to build the installed version should be
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sufficient; they can be installed using `apt-get build-dep emacs21' in
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Debian 3 and above.
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DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
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(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X,
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see below; search for MSDOG. For Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows NT,
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and Windows 2000, see the file nt/INSTALL. For the Mac, see the file
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mac/INSTALL.)
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1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
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a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at
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least 2.8 MB and can reach 100 MB or more. If the swapping space is
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insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l
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loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when
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running the final dumped Emacs.
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Building Emacs requires about 140 MB of disk space (including the
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Emacs sources) Once installed, Emacs occupies about 77 MB in the file
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system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp
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libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If
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the building and installation take place in different directories,
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then the installation procedure momentarily requires 140+77 MB.
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2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
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give to the `configure' program. That file offers hints for
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getting around some possible installation problems. The file lists
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many different configurations, but only the part for your machine and
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operating system is relevant. (The list is arranged in alphabetical
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order by the vendor name.)
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3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
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or in a separate directory.
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3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
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directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
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./configure [CONFIGURATION-NAME] [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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The CONFIGURATION-NAME argument should be a configuration name given
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in `./etc/MACHINES', with the system version number added at the end.
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You should try first omitting CONFIGURATION-NAME. This way,
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`configure' will try to guess your system type. If it cannot guess,
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or if something goes wrong in building or installing Emacs this way,
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try again specifying the proper CONFIGURATION-NAME explicitly.
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If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
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option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
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system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
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The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
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process where the compiler should look for the include files and
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object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
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is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
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Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also
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accept a list of directories, separated with colons.
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To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
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configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
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TOOLKIT is `athena', `motif' or `gtk' (`yes' and `lucid' are synonyms
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for `athena'). On some systems, it does not work to use a toolkit
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with shared libraries. A free implementation of Motif, called
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LessTif, is available from <http://www.lesstif.org>. Compiling with
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LessTif or Motif causes a standard File Selection Dialog to pop up
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when you invoke file commands with the mouse. You can get fancy
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3D-style scroll bars, even without LessTif/Motif, if you have the
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Xaw3d library installed (see "Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d
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availability).
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If `--with-x-toolkit=gtk' is specified, you can tell configure where
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to search for GTK by specifying `--with-pkg-config-prog=PATH' where
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PATH is the pathname to pkg-config. Note that GTK version 2.4 or
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newer is required for Emacs.
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The `--with-gcc' option specifies that the build process should
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compile Emacs using GCC. If you don't want to use GCC, specify
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`--with-gcc=no'. If you omit this option, `configure' will search
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for GCC in your path, and use it if present.
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The Emacs mail reader RMAIL is configured to be able to read mail from
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a POP3 server by default. Versions of the POP protocol older than
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POP3 are not supported. For Kerberos-authenticated POP add
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`--with-kerberos', for Hesiod support add `--with-hesiod'. While POP3
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is always enabled, whether Emacs actually uses POP is controlled by
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individual users--see the Rmail chapter of the Emacs manual.
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For image support you may have to download, build, and install the
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appropriate image support libraries for image types other than XBM and
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PBM, see the list of URLs in "ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES" above.
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(Note that PNG support requires libz in addition to libpng.)
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To disable individual types of image support in Emacs for some reason,
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even though configure finds the libraries, you can configure with one
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or more of these options:
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--without-xpm for XPM image support
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--without-jpeg for JPEG image support
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--without-tiff for TIFF image support
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--without-gif for GIF image support
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--without-png for PNG image support
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Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable LessTif/Motif or Xaw3d
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scroll bars.
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Use --without-xim to inhibit the default use of X Input Methods. In
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this case, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn on use of XIM.
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Use --disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on
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systems which support that.
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Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
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The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
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should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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- Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
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(unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
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- The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/share/emacs/VERSION
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(where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `19.27').
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- The architecture-dependent files go in
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PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
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(where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like mips-dec-ultrix4.2),
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unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise.
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The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
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portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
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files, like executables and utility programs. If specified,
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- Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and
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- The architecture-dependent files go in
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EXECDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION.
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EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs.
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For example, the command
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./configure mips-dec-ultrix --with-x11
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configures Emacs to build for a DECstation running Ultrix, with
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support for the X11 window system.
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`configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation
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itself. It just creates the files that influence those things:
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`./Makefile', `lib-src/Makefile', `oldXMenu/Makefile',
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`lwlib/Makefile', `src/Makefile', and `./src/config.h'. For details
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on exactly what it does, see the section called `CONFIGURATION BY
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HAND', below.
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When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and
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creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the
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same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after
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disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. `configure'
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also creates a file `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests
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to make reconfiguring faster, and a file `config.log' containing compiler
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output (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). You can give
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`configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the
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tests in FILE instead of `config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to
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disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
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If the description of the system configuration printed by `configure'
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is not right, or if it claims some of the fatures or libraries are not
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available when you know they are, look at the `config.log' file for
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the trace of the failed tests performed by `configure' to check
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whether these features are supported. Typically, some test fails
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because the compiler cannot find some function in the system
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libraries, or some macro-processor definition in the system headers.
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Some tests might fail because the compiler should look in special
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directories for some header files, or link against optional
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libraries, or use special compilation options. You can force
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`configure' and the build process which follows it to do that by
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setting the variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, and CC before
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running `configure'. CPPFLAGS lists the options passed to the
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preprocessor, CFLAGS are compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used
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when linking, LIBS are libraries to link against, and CC is the
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command which invokes the compiler.
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Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like
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shell such as Bash, which uses these variables:
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CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
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CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
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(this is all one long line). This tells `configure' to instruct the
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preprocessor to look in the `/foo/myinclude' directory for header
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files (in addition to the standard directories), instruct the linker
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to look in `/bar/mylib' for libraries, pass the -O3 optimization
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switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a
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libraries in addition to the standard ones.
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The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
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distribution, but using `configure' is easier. See the section called
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"CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration
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yourself.
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3b) To build in a separate directory, go to that directory
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and run the program `configure' as follows:
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SOURCE-DIR/configure CONFIGURATION-NAME [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
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SOURCE-DIR refers to the top-level Emacs source directory which is
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where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
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Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
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To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make'
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that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.
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3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory by filling
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it full of symlinks to the files in the real source directory.
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If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails:
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it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.
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As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use
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a directory full of links rather than use the standard GNU
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facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above).
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4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right
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for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with Emacs
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Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
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itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES,
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rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example,
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(setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")
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is how you would override the default value of the variable
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news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews").
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Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
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variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the
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variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are
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doing, you'll make a mistake.
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5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs
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Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out. Use
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site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
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documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see
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src/Makefile.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all
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else, use site-init.el. Do not load byte-compiled code which
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was build with a non-nil value of `byte-compile-dynamic'.
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If you set load-path to a different value in site-init.el or
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site-load.el, Emacs will use *precisely* that value when it starts up
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again. If you do this, you are on your own!
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Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must
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not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look
|
||
something up in the system's password and user information database.
|
||
See `./etc/PROBLEMS' for more details on which systems this affects.
|
||
|
||
The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not
|
||
need to create them if you have nothing to put in them.
|
||
|
||
6) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may
|
||
wish to add to various termcap entries. The files `./etc/termcap.ucb'
|
||
and `./etc/termcap.dat' may already contain appropriately-modified
|
||
entries.
|
||
|
||
7) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish
|
||
building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
|
||
named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
|
||
copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
|
||
directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
|
||
|
||
Or you can "install" the executable and the other Emacs into their
|
||
installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
|
||
are installed in the following directories:
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
|
||
`emacs', `etags', `ctags', `b2m', `emacsclient',
|
||
and `rcs-checkin'.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
|
||
`VERSION' stands for the number of the Emacs version
|
||
you are installing, like `18.59' or `19.27'. Since the
|
||
Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
|
||
another, including the version number in the path
|
||
allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed
|
||
at the same time; in particular, you don't have to
|
||
make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
|
||
file, the `yow' database, and other
|
||
architecture-independent files Emacs might need while
|
||
running. VERSION is as specified for `.../lisp'.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
|
||
programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to
|
||
run themselves.
|
||
`VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
|
||
installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument
|
||
you gave to the `configure' program to identify the
|
||
architecture and operating system of your machine,
|
||
like `mips-dec-ultrix' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since
|
||
these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
|
||
operating system, and architecture in use, including
|
||
the configuration name in the path allows you to have
|
||
several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
|
||
operating systems installed at the same time; this is
|
||
useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
|
||
share the file system Emacs is installed on.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs, known as
|
||
"info files". Many other GNU programs are documented
|
||
using info files as well, so this directory stands
|
||
apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
|
||
in `/usr/local/bin'.
|
||
|
||
Any version of Emacs, whether installed or not, also looks for Lisp
|
||
files in these directories.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
|
||
files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
|
||
|
||
`/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
|
||
files installed for all Emacs versions.
|
||
|
||
When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
|
||
in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in
|
||
`/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
|
||
`/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
|
||
|
||
If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
|
||
install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
|
||
for its Lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of
|
||
the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
|
||
information on this.
|
||
|
||
8) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
|
||
/usr/local/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the Emacs
|
||
info files.
|
||
|
||
9) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox files,
|
||
then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
|
||
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'. 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 subdirectories of your site's lisp
|
||
directory (usually /usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/).
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
MAKE VARIABLES
|
||
|
||
You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
|
||
files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
|
||
command line. For example, if you type
|
||
|
||
make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
|
||
|
||
the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
|
||
executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
|
||
`/usr/local/bin'.
|
||
|
||
Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
|
||
|
||
`bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
|
||
run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
|
||
|
||
`datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
|
||
read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
|
||
defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following
|
||
subdirectories under `datadir':
|
||
- `emacs/VERSION/lisp', containing the Emacs Lisp library, and
|
||
- `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
|
||
file, and the `yow' database.
|
||
`VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
|
||
like `18.59' or `19.0'. Since these files vary from one version
|
||
of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
|
||
allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
|
||
same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
|
||
unavailable while installing a new version.
|
||
|
||
`libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
|
||
Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
|
||
We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
|
||
- `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
|
||
programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
|
||
themselves.
|
||
`VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
|
||
and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the argument you gave to the
|
||
`configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
|
||
system of your machine, like `mips-dec-ultrix' or
|
||
`sparc-sun-sunos'. Since these files are specific to the version
|
||
of Emacs, operating system, and architecture in use, including
|
||
the configuration name in the path allows you to have several
|
||
versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating systems
|
||
installed at the same time; this is useful for sites at which
|
||
different kinds of machines share the file system Emacs is
|
||
installed on.
|
||
|
||
`infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
|
||
Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/info'.
|
||
|
||
`mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
|
||
utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
|
||
`/usr/local/man/man1'.
|
||
|
||
`manext' gives the extension the man pages should be installed with.
|
||
It should contain a period, followed by the appropriate
|
||
digit. It defaults to `.1'. For example given the default
|
||
values for `mandir' and `manext', the Emacs man page would be
|
||
installed as `/usr/local/man/man1/emacs.1'.
|
||
|
||
`prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
|
||
its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
|
||
architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
|
||
`sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
|
||
`/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
|
||
by default.
|
||
|
||
For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
|
||
under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
|
||
By including
|
||
`prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
|
||
in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
|
||
to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
|
||
directories under that path.
|
||
|
||
`exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
|
||
determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
|
||
path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
|
||
|
||
The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
|
||
GNU software; this variable is specific to Emacs.
|
||
|
||
`archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
|
||
files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
|
||
running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
|
||
see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
|
||
(where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above).
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
|
||
settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
|
||
directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
|
||
`Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
|
||
|
||
The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/paths.h,
|
||
a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
|
||
you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
|
||
before you run `make'.
|
||
|
||
The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
|
||
Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
|
||
when running make in the subdirectories.
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONFIGURATION BY HAND
|
||
|
||
Instead of running the `configure' program, you have to perform the
|
||
following steps.
|
||
|
||
1) Copy `./src/config.in' to `./src/config.h'.
|
||
|
||
2) Consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what configuration name you should
|
||
use for your system. Look at the code of the `configure' script to
|
||
see which operating system and architecture description files from
|
||
`src/s' and `src/m' should be used for that configuration name. Edit
|
||
`src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include
|
||
the appropriate system and architecture description files.
|
||
|
||
2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If
|
||
you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h
|
||
files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by
|
||
changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to
|
||
redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'.
|
||
|
||
3) Create src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile from the corresponding
|
||
`Makefile.in' files. First copy `Makefile.in' to `Makefile.c',
|
||
then edit in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs,
|
||
and then copy the shell commands near the end of `configure'
|
||
that run cpp to construct `Makefile'.
|
||
|
||
4) Create `Makefile' files in various other directories
|
||
from the corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard,
|
||
just a matter of substitution.
|
||
|
||
The `configure' script is built from `configure.in' by the `autoconf'
|
||
program. You need version 2.51 or newer of `autoconf' to rebuild
|
||
`configure'.
|
||
|
||
BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND
|
||
|
||
Once Emacs is configured, running `make' in the top directory performs
|
||
the following steps.
|
||
|
||
1) Run `make src/paths.h' in the top directory. This produces
|
||
`./src/paths.h' from the template file `./src/paths.in', changing
|
||
the paths to the values specified in `./Makefile'.
|
||
|
||
2) Go to directory `./lib-src' and run `make'. This creates
|
||
executables named `ctags' and `etags' and `wakeup' and `make-docfile'
|
||
and `digest-doc' and `test-distrib'. And others.
|
||
|
||
3) Go to directory `./src' and Run `make'. This refers to files in
|
||
the `./lisp' and `./lib-src' subdirectories using names `../lisp' and
|
||
`../lib-src'.
|
||
|
||
This creates a file `./src/emacs' which is the runnable Emacs,
|
||
which has another name that contains a version number.
|
||
Each time you do this, that version number increments in the last place.
|
||
|
||
It also creates a file in `./etc' whose name is `DOC' followed by the
|
||
current Emacs version. This file contains documentation strings for
|
||
all the functions in Emacs. Each time you run make to make a new
|
||
emacs, a new DOC file with a new name is made. You must keep the DOC
|
||
file for an Emacs version as long as you keep using that Emacs
|
||
version.
|
||
|
||
|
||
INSTALLATION BY HAND
|
||
|
||
The steps below are done by running `make install' in the main
|
||
directory of the Emacs distribution.
|
||
|
||
1) Copy `./lisp' and its subdirectories, `./etc', and the executables
|
||
in `./lib-src' to their final destinations, as selected in `./src/paths.h'.
|
||
|
||
Strictly speaking, not all of the executables in `./lib-src' need be copied.
|
||
- The programs `cvtmail', `fakemail', `hexl',
|
||
`movemail', `profile', `rcs2log', `timer', `vcdiff', `wakeup',
|
||
and `yow' are used by Emacs; they do need to be copied.
|
||
- The programs `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient', `b2m', and `rcs-checkin'
|
||
are intended to be run by users; they are handled below.
|
||
- The programs `make-docfile' and `test-distrib' were
|
||
used in building Emacs, and are not needed any more.
|
||
- The programs `digest-doc' and `sorted-doc' convert a `DOC' file into
|
||
a file for users to read. There is no important reason to move them.
|
||
|
||
2) Copy the files in `./info' to the place specified in
|
||
`./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/paths.el'. Note that if the
|
||
destination directory already contains a file named `dir', you
|
||
probably don't want to replace it with the `dir' file in the Emacs
|
||
distribution. Instead, you should make sure that the existing `dir'
|
||
file contains an appropriate menu entry for the Emacs info.
|
||
|
||
3) Copy `./src/emacs' to `/usr/local/bin', or to some other directory
|
||
in users' search paths. `./src/emacs' has an alternate name
|
||
`./src/emacs-EMACSVERSION'; you may wish to make a symbolic link named
|
||
`/usr/local/bin/emacs' pointing to that alternate name, as an easy way
|
||
of installing different versions.
|
||
|
||
You can delete `./src/temacs'.
|
||
|
||
4) Copy the programs `b2m', `emacsclient', `ctags', `etags', and
|
||
`rcs-checkin' from `./lib-src' to `/usr/local/bin'. These programs are
|
||
intended for users to run.
|
||
|
||
5) Copy the man pages in `./etc' for emacs, ctags, and etags into the
|
||
appropriate man directories.
|
||
|
||
6) The files in the `./src' subdirectory, except for `emacs', are not
|
||
used by Emacs once it is built. However, it is very desirable to keep
|
||
the source on line for debugging.
|
||
|
||
|
||
PROBLEMS
|
||
|
||
See the file PROBLEMS in etc subdirectory for a list of various
|
||
problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Installation on MSDOG (a.k.a. MSDOS)
|
||
|
||
To install on MSDOG, you need to have the GNU C compiler for MSDOG
|
||
(also known as djgpp), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the remarks in
|
||
config.bat for more information about locations and versions. The
|
||
file etc/FAQ includes pointers to Internet sites where you can find
|
||
the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". The configuration step
|
||
(see below) will test for these utilities and will refuse to continue
|
||
if any of them isn't found.
|
||
|
||
Recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp' subdirectory using the various
|
||
targets in the lisp/Makefile file requires additional utilities:
|
||
`find' and `xargs' (from Findutils), `touch' (from Fileutils) GNU
|
||
`echo' and `test' (from Sh-utils), `tr, `sort', and `uniq' (from
|
||
Textutils), and a port of Bash. However, you should not normally need
|
||
to run lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files are distributed in
|
||
byte-compiled form as well.
|
||
|
||
If you are building the MSDOG version of Emacs on an MSDOG-like system
|
||
which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 95), you need to make
|
||
sure that long file names are handled consistently both when you
|
||
unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to compile with
|
||
DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is enabled (LFN=y in
|
||
the environment), you need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that
|
||
doesn't truncate the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace;
|
||
the easiest way to do this is to use djtar program which comes with
|
||
DJGPP, since it will note the LFN setting and behave accordingly.
|
||
DJGPP v1 doesn't support long filenames, so you must unpack Emacs with
|
||
a program that truncates the filenames to 8.3 naming as it extracts
|
||
files; again, using djtar after setting LFN=n is the recommended way.
|
||
You can build Emacs with LFN=n even if you use DJGPP v2, if some of
|
||
your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN is set
|
||
to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
|
||
|
||
(By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
|
||
distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
|
||
done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
|
||
by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
|
||
into problems during the build process.)
|
||
|
||
It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
|
||
names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
|
||
compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
|
||
support long file names on Windows 9X no matter what was the setting
|
||
of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
|
||
and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
|
||
to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
|
||
directories are called by their original long names as found in the
|
||
distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
|
||
or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
|
||
djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
|
||
|
||
To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
|
||
|
||
djtar -x emacs.tgz
|
||
|
||
(This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
|
||
your system.)
|
||
|
||
If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
|
||
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:
|
||
|
||
djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
|
||
|
||
When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
|
||
created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
|
||
Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
|
||
|
||
config msdos
|
||
make install
|
||
|
||
Running "config msdos" checks for several programs that are required
|
||
to configure and build Emacs; if one of those programs is not found,
|
||
CONFIG.BAT stops and prints an error message. If you have DJGPP
|
||
version 2.0 or 2.01, it will complain about a program called
|
||
DJECHO.EXE. These old versions of DJGPP shipped that program under
|
||
the name ECHO.EXE, so you can simply copy ECHO.EXE to DJECHO.EXE and
|
||
rerun CONFIG.BAT. If you have neither ECHO.EXE nor DJECHO.EXE, you
|
||
should be able to find them in your djdevNNN.zip archive (where NNN is
|
||
the DJGPP version number).
|
||
|
||
On Windows NT or Windows 2000, running "config msdos" might print an
|
||
error message like "VDM has been already loaded". This is because
|
||
those systems have a program called `redir.exe' which is incompatible
|
||
with a program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
|
||
config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
|
||
the front of your PATH environment variable.
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
/emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
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/emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
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subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
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subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
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installed intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its
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subdirectories as well.) The bin subdirectory should be added to your
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PATH. The msdos subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for
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Emacs which you might find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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the location of the `info' directory).
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MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
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as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
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work. Synchronous subprocesses do work.
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Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
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these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.
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