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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide
2 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2015 Free Software Foundation,
3 Inc.
4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
5
6
7 This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs.
8 For more information specific to the MS-Windows, GNUstep/Mac OS X, and
9 MS-DOS ports, also read the files nt/INSTALL, nextstep/INSTALL, and
10 msdos/INSTALL. For information about building from a repository checkout
11 (rather than a release), also read the file INSTALL.REPO.
12
13
14 BASIC INSTALLATION
15
16 On most Unix systems, you build Emacs by first running the `configure'
17 shell script. This attempts to deduce the correct values for
18 various system-dependent variables and features, and find the
19 directories where certain system headers and libraries are kept.
20 In a few cases, you may need to explicitly tell configure where to
21 find some things, or what options to use.
22
23 `configure' creates a `Makefile' in several subdirectories, and a
24 `src/config.h' file containing system-dependent definitions.
25 Running the `make' utility then builds the package for your system.
26
27 Building Emacs requires GNU make, <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>.
28 On most systems that Emacs supports, this is the default `make' program.
29
30 Here's the procedure to build Emacs using `configure' on systems which
31 are supported by it. In some cases, if the simplified procedure fails,
32 you might need to use various non-default options, and maybe perform
33 some of the steps manually. The more detailed description in the other
34 sections of this guide will help you do that, so please refer to those
35 sections if you need to.
36
37 1. Unpacking the Emacs 24 release requires about 200 MB of free
38 disk space. Building Emacs uses about another 200 MB of space.
39 The final installed Emacs uses about 150 MB of disk space.
40 This includes the space-saving that comes from automatically
41 compressing the Lisp source files on installation.
42
43 2a. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked Emacs and invoke the
44 `configure' script:
45
46 ./configure
47
48 2b. Alternatively, create a separate directory, outside the source
49 directory, where you want to build Emacs, and invoke `configure'
50 from there:
51
52 SOURCE-DIR/configure
53
54 where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory.
55
56 3. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
57 about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
58 looking for anything suspicious, such as wrong CPU and operating
59 system names, wrong places for headers or libraries, missing
60 libraries that you know are installed on your system, etc.
61
62 If you find anything wrong, you may have to pass to `configure'
63 one or more options specifying the explicit machine configuration
64 name, where to find various headers and libraries, etc.
65 Refer to the section DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION below.
66
67 If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
68 Xpm and jpeg, refer to "Image support libraries" below.
69
70 If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
71 you, but there are no obvious errors, assume that `configure' did
72 its job and proceed.
73
74 4. Invoke the `make' program:
75
76 make
77
78 5. If `make' succeeds, it will build an executable program `emacs'
79 in the `src' directory. You can try this program, to make sure
80 it works:
81
82 src/emacs -Q
83
84 6. Assuming that the program `src/emacs' starts and displays its
85 opening screen, you can install the program and its auxiliary
86 files into their installation directories:
87
88 make install
89
90 You are now ready to use Emacs. If you wish to conserve disk space,
91 you may remove the program binaries and object files from the
92 directory where you built Emacs:
93
94 make clean
95
96 You can delete the entire build directory if you do not plan to
97 build Emacs again, but it can be useful to keep for debugging.
98 If you want to build Emacs again with different configure options,
99 first clean the source directories:
100
101 make distclean
102
103 Note that the install automatically saves space by compressing
104 (provided you have the `gzip' program) those installed Lisp source (.el)
105 files that have corresponding .elc versions, as well as the Info files.
106
107
108 ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
109
110 * Complex Text Layout support libraries
111
112 On GNU and Unix systems, Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db",
113 "libm17n-flt", "libotf" to correctly display such complex scripts as
114 Indic and Khmer, and also for scripts that require Arabic shaping
115 support (Arabic and Farsi). On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux,
116 these libraries may be already present or available as additional
117 packages. Note that if there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package,
118 for use at compilation time rather than run time, you will need that
119 as well as the corresponding run time package; typically the dev
120 package will contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise,
121 you can download the libraries from <http://www.nongnu.org/m17n/>.
122
123 Note that Emacs cannot support complex scripts on a TTY, unless the
124 terminal includes such a support.
125
126 * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
127
128 The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
129 that Emacs can use to display international characters. If you see a
130 non-ASCII character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have
131 a font for it. You might find one in the intlfonts distribution. If
132 you do have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters
133 don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the
134 intlfonts distribution might look better.
135
136 The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
137 package for printing international characters. The file
138 lisp/ps-mule.el defines the *.bdf font files required for printing
139 each character set.
140
141 The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
142 in the intlfonts/README file.
143
144 * Image support libraries
145
146 Emacs needs libraries to display images, with the exception of PBM and
147 XBM images whose support is built-in.
148
149 On some systems, particularly on GNU/Linux, these libraries may
150 already be present or available as additional packages. If
151 there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation
152 time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the
153 corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will
154 contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can
155 download and build libraries from sources. Although none of them are
156 essential for running Emacs, some are important enough that
157 'configure' will report an error if they are absent from a system that
158 has X11 support, unless 'configure' is specifically told to omit them.
159
160 Here's a list of some of these libraries, and the URLs where they
161 can be found (in the unlikely event that your distribution does not
162 provide them). By default, libraries marked with an X are required if
163 X11 is being used.
164
165 libXaw3d http://directory.fsf.org/project/xaw3d/
166 X libxpm for XPM: http://www.x.org/releases/current/src/lib/
167 X libpng for PNG: http://www.libpng.org/
168 libz (for PNG): http://www.zlib.net/
169 X libjpeg for JPEG: http://www.ijg.org/
170 X libtiff for TIFF: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
171 X libgif for GIF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
172 librsvg2 for SVG: http://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/LibRsvg
173
174 If you supply the appropriate --without-LIB option, 'configure' will
175 omit the corresponding library from Emacs, even if that makes for a
176 less-pleasant user interface. Otherwise, Emacs will configure itself
177 to build with these libraries if 'configure' finds them on your
178 system, and 'configure' will complain and exit if a library marked 'X'
179 is not found on a system that uses X11. Use --without-LIB if your
180 version of a library won't work because some routines are missing.
181
182 * Extra fonts
183
184 The Emacs distribution does not include fonts and does not install
185 them.
186
187 On the GNU system, Emacs supports both X fonts and local fonts
188 (i.e. fonts managed by the fontconfig library). If you need more
189 fonts than your distribution normally provides, you must install them
190 yourself. See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/> for a large
191 number of free Unicode fonts.
192
193 * GNU/Linux development packages
194
195 Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by default;
196 they include the files that you need to run Emacs, but not those you
197 need to compile it. For example, to compile Emacs with support for X
198 and graphics libraries, you may need to install the `X development'
199 package(s), and development versions of the jpeg, png, etc. packages.
200
201 The names of the packages that you need varies according to the
202 GNU/Linux distribution that you use, and the options that you want to
203 configure Emacs with. On Debian-based systems, you can install all the
204 packages needed to build the installed version of Emacs with a command
205 like `apt-get build-dep emacs24'. On Red Hat systems, the
206 corresponding command is `yum-builddep emacs'.
207
208
209 DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
210
211 (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For GNUstep and Mac OS X,
212 see nextstep/INSTALL. For non-ancient versions of MS Windows, see
213 the file nt/INSTALL. For MS-DOS and MS Windows 3.X, see msdos/INSTALL.)
214
215 1) See the basic installation summary above for the disk space requirements.
216
217 2) In the unlikely event that `configure' does not detect your system
218 type correctly, consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what --host, --build
219 options you should pass to `configure'. That file also offers hints
220 for getting around some possible installation problems.
221
222 3) You can build Emacs in the top-level Emacs source directory
223 or in a separate directory.
224
225 3a) To build in the top-level Emacs source directory, go to that
226 directory and run the program `configure' as follows:
227
228 ./configure [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
229
230 If `configure' cannot determine your system type, try again
231 specifying the proper --build, --host options explicitly.
232
233 If you don't want X support, specify `--with-x=no'. If you omit this
234 option, `configure' will try to figure out for itself whether your
235 system has X, and arrange to use it if present.
236
237 The `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' options tell the build
238 process where the compiler should look for the include files and
239 object libraries used with the X Window System. Normally, `configure'
240 is able to find them; these options are necessary if you have your X
241 Window System files installed in unusual places. These options also
242 accept a list of directories, separated with colons.
243
244 To get more attractive menus, you can specify an X toolkit when you
245 configure Emacs; use the option `--with-x-toolkit=TOOLKIT', where
246 TOOLKIT is `gtk' (the default), `athena', or `motif' (`yes' and
247 `lucid' are synonyms for `athena'). Compiling with Motif causes a
248 standard File Selection Dialog to pop up when you invoke file commands
249 with the mouse. You can get fancy 3D-style scroll bars, even without
250 Gtk or Motif, if you have the Xaw3d library installed (see
251 "Image support libraries" above for Xaw3d availability).
252
253 You can tell configure where to search for GTK by giving it the
254 argument PKG_CONFIG='/full/name/of/pkg-config'.
255
256 Emacs will autolaunch a D-Bus session bus, when the environment
257 variable DISPLAY is set, but no session bus is running. This might be
258 inconvenient for Emacs when running as daemon or running via a remote
259 ssh connection. In order to completely prevent the use of D-Bus, configure
260 Emacs with the options `--without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings'.
261
262 The Emacs mail reader RMAIL is configured to be able to read mail from
263 a POP3 server by default. Versions of the POP protocol older than
264 POP3 are not supported. For Kerberos-authenticated POP add
265 `--with-kerberos', for Hesiod support add `--with-hesiod'. While POP3
266 is always enabled, whether Emacs actually uses POP is controlled by
267 individual users--see the Rmail chapter of the Emacs manual.
268
269 For image support you may have to download, build, and install the
270 appropriate image support libraries for image types other than XBM and
271 PBM, see the list of URLs in "Image support libraries" above.
272 (Note that PNG support requires libz in addition to libpng.)
273
274 To disable individual types of image support in Emacs for some reason,
275 even though configure finds the libraries, you can configure with one
276 or more of these options:
277
278 --without-xpm for XPM image support
279 --without-jpeg for JPEG image support
280 --without-tiff for TIFF image support
281 --without-gif for GIF image support
282 --without-png for PNG image support
283 --without-rsvg for SVG image support
284
285 Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable Motif or Xaw3d scroll bars.
286
287 Use --without-xim to inhibit the default use of X Input Methods.
288 In this case, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn on use of XIM.
289
290 Use --disable-largefile to omit support for files larger than 2GB on
291 systems which support that.
292
293 Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
294
295 Use --without-all for a smaller executable with fewer dependencies on
296 external libraries, at the cost of disabling many features. Although
297 --without-all disables libraries not needed for ordinary Emacs
298 operation, it does enable X support, and using the GTK2 or GTK3
299 toolkit creates a lot of library dependencies. So if you want to
300 build a small executable with very basic X support, use --without-all
301 --with-x-toolkit=no. For the smallest possible executable without X,
302 use --without-all --without-x. If you want to build with just a few
303 features enabled, you can combine --without-all with --with-FEATURE.
304 For example, you can use --without-all --without-x --with-dbus to
305 build with DBus support and nothing more.
306
307 Use --with-wide-int to implement Emacs values with the type 'long long',
308 even on hosts where a narrower type would do. With this option, on a
309 typical 32-bit host, Emacs integers have 62 bits instead of 30.
310
311 Use --enable-gcc-warnings to enable compile-time checks that warn
312 about possibly-questionable C code. This is intended for developers
313 and is useful with GNU-compatible compilers. On a recent GNU system
314 there should be no warnings; on older and on non-GNU systems the
315 generated warnings may still be useful, though you may prefer building
316 with 'make WERROR_CFLAGS=' so that the warnings are not treated as
317 errors.
318
319 Use --disable-silent-rules to cause 'make' to give more details about
320 the commands it executes. This can be helpful when debugging a build
321 that goes awry. 'make V=1' also enables the extra chatter.
322
323 Use --enable-link-time-optimization to enable link-time optimizer. If
324 you're using GNU compiler, this feature is supported since version 4.5.0.
325 If `configure' can determine number of online CPUS on your system, final
326 link-time optimization and code generation is executed in parallel using
327 one job per each available online CPU.
328
329 This option is also supported for clang. You should have GNU binutils
330 with `gold' linker and plugin support, and clang with LLVMgold.so plugin.
331 Read http://llvm.org/docs/GoldPlugin.html for details. Also note that
332 this feature is still experimental, so prepare to build binutils and
333 clang from the corresponding source code repositories.
334
335 The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
336 should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
337 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
338 (unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
339 - The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/share/emacs/VERSION
340 (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like `23.2').
341 - The architecture-dependent files go in
342 PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
343 (where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like
344 i686-pc-linux-gnu), unless the `--exec-prefix' option says otherwise.
345
346 The `--exec-prefix=EXECDIR' option allows you to specify a separate
347 portion of the directory tree for installing architecture-specific
348 files, like executables and utility programs. If specified,
349 - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in EXECDIR/bin, and
350 - The architecture-dependent files go in
351 EXECDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION.
352 EXECDIR/bin should be a directory that is normally in users' PATHs.
353
354 For example, the command
355
356 ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu --without-sound
357
358 configures Emacs to build for a 32-bit GNU/Linux distribution,
359 without sound support.
360
361 `configure' doesn't do any compilation or installation itself.
362 It just creates the files that influence those things:
363 `./Makefile' in the top-level directory and several subdirectories;
364 and `./src/config.h'.
365
366 When it is done, `configure' prints a description of what it did and
367 creates a shell script `config.status' which, when run, recreates the
368 same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after
369 disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. `configure'
370 also creates a file `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests
371 to make reconfiguring faster, and a file `config.log' containing compiler
372 output (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). You can give
373 `configure' the option `--cache-file=FILE' to use the results of the
374 tests in FILE instead of `config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to
375 disable caching, for debugging `configure'.
376
377 If the description of the system configuration printed by `configure'
378 is not right, or if it claims some of the features or libraries are not
379 available when you know they are, look at the `config.log' file for
380 the trace of the failed tests performed by `configure' to check
381 whether these features are supported. Typically, some test fails
382 because the compiler cannot find some function in the system
383 libraries, or some macro-processor definition in the system headers.
384
385 Some tests might fail because the compiler should look in special
386 directories for some header files, or link against optional
387 libraries, or use special compilation options. You can force
388 `configure' and the build process which follows it to do that by
389 setting the variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, CPP and CC
390 before running `configure'. CPP is the command which invokes the
391 preprocessor, CPPFLAGS lists the options passed to it, CFLAGS are
392 compilation options, LDFLAGS are options used when linking, LIBS are
393 libraries to link against, and CC is the command which invokes the
394 compiler. By default, gcc is used if available.
395
396 Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like
397 shell such as Bash, which uses these variables:
398
399 ./configure \
400 CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
401 CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar'
402
403 (this is all one shell command). This tells `configure' to instruct the
404 preprocessor to look in the `/foo/myinclude' directory for header
405 files (in addition to the standard directories), instruct the linker
406 to look in `/bar/mylib' for libraries, pass the -O3 optimization
407 switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo and libbar
408 libraries in addition to the standard ones.
409
410 For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' uses
411 pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed.
412 If you want pkg-config to look in special directories, you have to set
413 PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories where the .pc-files for
414 those libraries are. For example:
415
416 ./configure \
417 PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig'
418
419 3b) To build in a separate directory, go to that directory
420 and run the program `configure' as follows:
421
422 SOURCE-DIR/configure CONFIGURATION-NAME [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...
423
424 SOURCE-DIR refers to the top-level Emacs source directory which is
425 where Emacs's configure script is located. `configure' looks for the
426 Emacs source code in the directory that `configure' is in.
427
428 4) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs
429 Lisp code you want Emacs to load before it is dumped out. Use
430 site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their
431 documentation strings to be in the etc/DOC file (see
432 src/Makefile.in if you wish to figure out how to do that). For all
433 else, use site-init.el. Do not load byte-compiled code which
434 was built with a non-nil value of `byte-compile-dynamic'.
435
436 It is not a good idea to edit the normal .el files that come with Emacs.
437 Instead, use a file like site-init.el to change settings.
438
439 To change the value of a variable that is already defined in Emacs,
440 you should use the Lisp function `setq', not `defvar'. For example,
441
442 (setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")
443
444 is how you would override the default value of the variable
445 news-inews-program.
446
447 Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the
448 variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the
449 variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are
450 doing, you'll make a mistake.
451
452 The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not
453 need to create them if you have nothing to put in them.
454
455 5) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may
456 wish to add to various termcap entries. (This is unlikely to be necessary.)
457
458 6) Run `make' in the top directory of the Emacs distribution to finish
459 building Emacs in the standard way. The final executable file is
460 named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without
461 copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling
462 directories ../lisp, ../lib-src, ../info.
463
464 Or you can "install" the executable and the other files into their
465 installed locations, with `make install'. By default, Emacs's files
466 are installed in the following directories:
467
468 `/usr/local/bin' holds the executable programs users normally run -
469 `emacs', `etags', `ctags', `emacsclient'.
470
471 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp library;
472 `VERSION' stands for the number of the Emacs version
473 you are installing, like `23.1' or `23.2'. Since the
474 Lisp library changes from one version of Emacs to
475 another, including the version number in the path
476 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed
477 at the same time; in particular, you don't have to
478 make Emacs unavailable while installing a new version.
479
480 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc' holds the Emacs tutorial, the DOC
481 file, and other architecture-independent files Emacs
482 might need while running.
483
484 `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME' contains executable
485 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to
486 run themselves.
487 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are
488 installing, and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the value
489 deduced by the `configure' program to identify the
490 architecture and operating system of your machine,
491 like `i686-pc-linux-gnu' or `sparc-sun-sunos'. Since
492 these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
493 operating system, and architecture in use, including
494 the configuration name in the path allows you to have
495 several versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and
496 operating systems installed at the same time; this is
497 useful for sites at which different kinds of machines
498 share the file system Emacs is installed on.
499
500 `/usr/local/share/info' holds the on-line documentation for Emacs,
501 known as "info files". Many other GNU programs are
502 documented using info files as well, so this directory
503 stands apart from the other, Emacs-specific directories.
504
505 `/usr/local/share/man/man1' holds the man pages for the programs installed
506 in `/usr/local/bin'.
507
508 Any version of Emacs, whether installed or not, also looks for Lisp
509 files in these directories.
510
511 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
512 files installed for Emacs version VERSION only.
513
514 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' holds the local Emacs Lisp
515 files installed for all Emacs versions.
516
517 When Emacs is installed, it searches for its Lisp files
518 in `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp', then in
519 `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp', and finally in
520 `/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp'.
521
522 If these directories are not what you want, you can specify where to
523 install Emacs's libraries and data files or where Emacs should search
524 for its Lisp files by giving values for `make' variables as part of
525 the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more
526 information on this.
527
528 7) Check the file `dir' in your site's info directory (usually
529 /usr/local/share/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the
530 Emacs info files.
531
532 8) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox files,
533 then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid
534 to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe.
535
536 9) You are done! You can remove executables and object files from
537 the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files
538 that `configure' created (so you can compile Emacs for a different
539 configuration), type `make distclean'.
540
541
542 MAKE VARIABLES
543
544 You can change where the build process installs Emacs and its data
545 files by specifying values for `make' variables as part of the `make'
546 command line. For example, if you type
547
548 make install bindir=/usr/local/gnubin
549
550 the `bindir=/usr/local/gnubin' argument indicates that the Emacs
551 executable files should go in `/usr/local/gnubin', not
552 `/usr/local/bin'.
553
554 Here is a complete list of the variables you may want to set.
555
556 `bindir' indicates where to put executable programs that users can
557 run. This defaults to /usr/local/bin.
558
559 `datadir' indicates where to put the architecture-independent
560 read-only data files that Emacs refers to while it runs; it
561 defaults to /usr/local/share. We create the following
562 subdirectories under `datadir':
563 - `emacs/VERSION/lisp', containing the Emacs Lisp library, and
564 - `emacs/VERSION/etc', containing the tutorials, DOC file, etc.
565 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
566 like `23.1' or `23.2'. Since these files vary from one version
567 of Emacs to another, including the version number in the path
568 allows you to have several versions of Emacs installed at the
569 same time; this means that you don't have to make Emacs
570 unavailable while installing a new version.
571
572 `libexecdir' indicates where to put architecture-specific data files that
573 Emacs refers to as it runs; it defaults to `/usr/local/libexec'.
574 We create the following subdirectories under `libexecdir':
575 - `emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME', containing executable
576 programs used by Emacs that users are not expected to run
577 themselves.
578 `VERSION' is the number of the Emacs version you are installing,
579 and `CONFIGURATION-NAME' is the value deduced by the
580 `configure' program to identify the architecture and operating
581 system of your machine, like `i686-pc-linux-gnu' or `sparc-sun-sunos'.
582 Since these files are specific to the version of Emacs,
583 operating system, and architecture in use, including the
584 configuration name in the path allows you to have several
585 versions of Emacs for any mix of machines and operating
586 systems installed at the same time; this is useful for sites
587 at which different kinds of machines share the file system
588 Emacs is installed on.
589
590 `infodir' indicates where to put the info files distributed with
591 Emacs; it defaults to `/usr/local/share/info'.
592
593 `mandir' indicates where to put the man pages for Emacs and its
594 utilities (like `etags'); it defaults to
595 `/usr/local/share/man/man1'.
596
597 `prefix' doesn't give a path for any specific part of Emacs; instead,
598 its value is used to determine the defaults for all the
599 architecture-independent path variables - `datadir',
600 `sharedstatedir', `infodir', and `mandir'. Its default value is
601 `/usr/local'; the other variables add on `lib' or `man' to it
602 by default.
603
604 For example, suppose your site generally places GNU software
605 under `/usr/users/software/gnusoft' instead of `/usr/local'.
606 By including
607 `prefix=/usr/users/software/gnusoft'
608 in the arguments to `make', you can instruct the build process
609 to place all of the Emacs data files in the appropriate
610 directories under that path.
611
612 `exec_prefix' serves the same purpose as `prefix', but instead
613 determines the default values for the architecture-dependent
614 path variables - `bindir' and `libexecdir'.
615
616 The above variables serve analogous purposes in the makefiles for all
617 GNU software; the following variables are specific to Emacs.
618
619 `archlibdir' indicates where Emacs installs and expects the executable
620 files and other architecture-dependent data it uses while
621 running. Its default value, based on `libexecdir' (which
622 see), is `/usr/local/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION-NAME'
623 (where VERSION and CONFIGURATION-NAME are as described above).
624
625 `GZIP_PROG' is the name of the executable that compresses installed info,
626 manual, and .el files. It defaults to gzip. Setting it to
627 the empty string suppresses compression.
628
629 Remember that you must specify any variable values you need each time
630 you run `make' in the top directory. If you run `make' once to build
631 emacs, test it, and then run `make' again to install the files, you
632 must provide the same variable settings each time. To make the
633 settings persist, you can edit them into the `Makefile' in the top
634 directory, but be aware that running the `configure' program erases
635 `Makefile' and rebuilds it from `Makefile.in'.
636
637 The path for finding Lisp files is specified in src/epaths.h,
638 a file which is generated by running configure. To change the path,
639 you can edit the definition of PATH_LOADSEARCH in that file
640 before you run `make'.
641
642 The top-level Makefile stores the variable settings it used in the
643 Makefiles for the subdirectories, so you don't have to specify them
644 when running make in the subdirectories.
645
646
647 PROBLEMS
648
649 See the file `./etc/PROBLEMS' for a list of various problems sometimes
650 encountered, and what to do about them.
651 \f
652 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
653
654 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
655 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
656 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
657 (at your option) any later version.
658
659 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
660 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
661 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
662 GNU General Public License for more details.
663
664 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
665 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.