GNU Emacs Installation Guide
-Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2012
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2013
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Emacs will autolaunch a D-Bus session bus, when the environment
variable DISPLAY is set, but no session bus is running. This might be
inconvenient for Emacs when running as daemon or running via a remote
-ssh connection. In order to suppress D-Bus at all, configure Emacs
-with the options `--without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings'.
+ssh connection. In order to completely prevent the use of D-Bus, configure
+Emacs with the options `--without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings'.
The Emacs mail reader RMAIL is configured to be able to read mail from
a POP3 server by default. Versions of the POP protocol older than
Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
+Use --without-all if you want to build a small executable with the minimal
+dependencies on external libraries, at the cost of disabling most of the
+features that are normally enabled by default. Using --without-all is
+equivalent to --without-sound --without-dbus --without-libotf
+--without-selinux --without-xft --without-gsettings --without-gnutls
+--without-rsvg --without-xml2 --without-gconf --without-imagemagick
+--without-m17n-flt --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif
+--without-png --without-gpm. Note that --without-all leaves X support
+enabled, and using the GTK2 or GTK3 toolkit creates a lot of library
+dependencies. So if you want to build a small executable with very basic
+X support, use --without-all --with-x-toolkit=no. For the smallest possible
+executable without X, use --without-all --without-x. If you want to build
+with just a few features enabled, you can combine --without-all with
+--with-FEATURE. For example, you can use --without-all --with-dbus
+to build with DBus support and nothing more.
+
Use --with-wide-int to implement Emacs values with the type 'long long',
even on hosts where a narrower type would do. With this option, on a
typical 32-bit host, Emacs integers have 62 bits instead of 30.
corresponding `Makefile.in' files. This isn't so hard, just a matter
of editing in appropriate substitutions for the @...@ constructs.
-The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the `autoconf'
-program. You need at least the version of autoconf specified in the
-AC_PREREQ(...) command to rebuild `configure' from `configure.ac'.
+The `configure' script is built from `configure.ac' by the
+`autogen.sh' script, which checks that `autoconf' and other build
+tools are sufficiently up to date and then runs the build tools.
BUILDING GNU EMACS BY HAND