SOURCE-DIR/configure
- where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory.
+ where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level Emacs source directory. This
+ may not work unless you use GNU make.
4. When `configure' finishes, it prints several lines of details
about the system configuration. Read those details carefully
to DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION section below.
If `configure' didn't find some image support libraries, such as
- Xpm, jpeg, etc., refer to the subsection "Image support
- libraries", below.
+ Xpm, jpeg, etc., and you want to use them refer to the subsection
+ "Image support libraries", below.
If the details printed by `configure' don't make any sense to
you, assume that `configure' did its job and proceed.
make clean
+ You can also save some space by compressing (with `gzip') Info files
+ and installed Lisp source (.el) files which have corresponding .elc
+ versions.
+
ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
when linking, LIBS are libraries to link against, and CC is the
command which invokes the compiler.
-Here's an example of a `configure' invocation which uses these
-variables:
+Here's an example of a `configure' invocation, assuming a Bourne-like
+shell such as Bash, which uses these variables:
CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \
CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' ./configure
subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
-intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
+intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.)
The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.