3 Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006
4 Free software Foundation, Inc.
5 See the end of the file for copying permissions.
7 This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
9 For each system and machine, we give the configuration name you should
10 pass to the `configure' script to prepare to build Emacs for that
13 The `configure' script uses the configuration name to decide which
14 machine and operating system description files `src/config.h' should
15 include. The machine description files are all in `src/m', and have
16 names similar to, but not identical to, the machine names used in
17 configuration names. The operating system files are all in `src/s',
18 and are named similarly. See the `configure' script if you need to
19 know which configuration names use which machine and operating system
22 If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this
23 file, and then edit the `configure' script to tell it which
24 configuration name(s) should select your new machine description and
25 system description files.
28 Here are the configurations Emacs is intended to work with, with the
29 corresponding configuration names. You can postpend version numbers
30 to operating system names (i.e. sunos4.1) or architecture names (i.e.
31 hppa1.1). If you leave out the version number, the `configure' script
32 will configure Emacs for the latest version it knows about.
34 Acorn RISCiX (arm-acorn-riscix1.2)
36 Emacs 19.29 has changes that ought to support RISCiX 1.2.
38 Due to a bug in the RISCiX C compiler (3.4.5), emacs must
39 be built with gcc (versions 2.5.8 onwards).
41 In addition, you will need GNU sed and GNU make, as the RISCiX release
42 versions of these utilities cannot cope with building emacs-19!
44 GNU sed should be configured with:
46 env 'DEFS=-Dgetopt=gnu_getopt -Dopterr=gnu_opterr -Doptind=gnu_optind \
47 -Doptarg=gnu_optarg' ./configure
49 GNU make (3.72+) should be configured with:
51 env 'CFLAGS=-Dgetopt=gnu_getopt -Dopterr=gnu_opterr -Doptind=gnu_optind \
52 -Doptarg=gnu_optarg' ./configure
54 Emacs may be configured to use the X toolkit, by adding --with-x-toolkit
55 to the configure command. If you do this, you will need to edit the line
56 in src/Makefile which defines LIBW (about line 59) to read:
60 This ensures that the non-shared widget library is used.
62 It is unlikely that this version of emacs will work with RISCiX 1.1.
64 Alliant (fx80-alliant-bsd):
66 18.52 worked on system version 4. Previous Emacs versions were
67 known to work on previous system versions.
69 If you are using older versions of their operating system, you may
70 need to edit `src/config.h' to use `m/alliant1.h' (on version 1) or
71 `m/alliant.h' (on versions 2 and 3).
73 Alliant FX/2800 (i860-alliant-bsd)
75 Known to work with 19.26 and OS version 2.2, compiler version 1.3.
77 Alpha (DEC) running OSF/1 or GNU/Linux (alpha-dec-osf1, alpha-dec-linux-gnu)
79 For OSF/1 (aka Digital Unix) version 4.0, update 386,
80 it is reported that you need to run configure this way:
82 configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
84 DEC C compiler version 5.9 (DEC C V5.9-005 on Digital UNIX V4.0f)
85 is reported to produce bogus binaries of Emacs 21.2 when the
86 command-line switches "-O4 -arch ev6 -tune ev6" are used. Using
87 just -O4 produces a good executable.
89 For 4.0 revision 564, and 4.0A and 4.0B, Emacs 20 seems to work
90 with no special configuration options. However, if you use GCC as
91 your compiler, you will need version 2.8.1 or later, as older
92 versions fail to build with a message "Invalid dimension for the
95 Note that the X11 libraries on GNU/Linux systems for the Alpha are
96 said to have bugs that prevent Emacs from working with X (as of
97 November 1995). Recent releases work (July 2000).
99 Altos 3068 (m68k-altos-sysv)
101 18.52 was said to work, provided you don't compile unexec.c with -O.
103 Amdahl UTS (580-amdahl-sysv)
105 Small changes for 18.38 were merged in 18.39. It is mostly
106 working, but at last report a bug sometimes causes Emacs to
107 grab very large amounts of memory. No fix or explanation
108 has yet been reported. It may be possible to find this bug
109 if you find which Emacs command it happens within and then
110 run that command with a breakpoint set at malloc.
112 The 5.2u370 compiler is so brain damaged that it is not
113 even worth trying to use it. Success was obtained with the
114 uts native C compiler on uts version 5.2.5.
116 Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X
118 For installation on all versions of the Mac OS platform, see the file
121 Apple PowerPC Macintosh running GNU/Linux
123 There are special considerations for a variety of this system which
124 is known as the ``Yellow Dog [GNU/]Linux'': Emacs may crash during
125 dumping. To solve this, edit the header file src/m/macppc.h in the
126 Emacs distribution, and remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives
127 which surround the following block near the end of the file:
129 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux ecept for Yellowdog,
130 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
131 know what's really going on here. */
132 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
134 #if defined __linux__
135 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
136 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
141 After that, reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. It should now build
144 Apollo running X Windows (m68k-apollo-bsd)
146 Apollo version now supports dumping. It has been tested on SR10.3 and
147 SR10.4. It certainly requires at least SR10.0, and maybe SR10.2. Be sure
148 to build in the BSD environment.
150 By default, everything is compiled with the switch "-W0,-opt,2". Don't try
151 to change this to full optimization (-O). The full optimizer (in Domain CC
152 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9) generates some bad code in several modules which causes
153 the emacs window, under X, to be refreshed with each keystroke.
155 The configuration stuff should work for the most part. However, some Domain
156 installations may have to edit src/Makefile manually after it is created.
157 There are too many versions of both cc and X to automate this easily.
159 In `lib-src/Makefile', emacsclient and emacsserver compile and work fine
160 under CC 6.9. They now probably work under other versions of the compiler,
163 The Apollo Domain CC compiler will issue quite a few warning messages,
164 mostly complaining about incompatible pointers. In general, these are
165 harmless and can be ignored. If you discover otherwise, please submit a bug
166 report identifying the problem in detail.
168 When you try to dump emacs, you may get the message ".rwdi section needs
169 relocation." This means you are linking with some code that has compressed
170 data sections. In some cases this comes from linking with X libraries. Try
171 using shared X libraries instead. With some versions of Domain/OS this is
172 as simple as removing the "-lX11" from the LIBX line in src/Makefile.
174 When running the configure script, use the configuration name
175 "m68k-apollo-bsd". You will also need to use the "-with-gcc=no" and
176 "-with-x" options. Depending upon your site configuration, you may have to
177 use other configure options, as well. Examine the INSTALL file for other
180 Check out the file 'lisp/x-apollo.el'. To use it, add
184 to your .emacs file. It provides useful default Apollo function key
187 AT&T 3b2, 3b5, 3b15, 3b20 (we32k-att-sysv)
189 Emacs will probably not work with certain kernel constants too small.
191 In param.h CDLIMIT should be at least (1L << 12) in order to allow
192 processes to write up to 2 Mbyte files. This parameter is configurable
193 by normal means in /etc/master.d/kernel; examine that file for the
194 symbol CDLIMIT or ULIMIT, and raise it by several powers of 2. Then
195 do normal kernel rebuild things via "cd /boot; mkboot -k KERNEL" and so
198 In seg.h NSEGP and STACKSEG should be at least 16 and 4 respectively
199 to allow processes with total size of up to 2Mbytes.
200 However, I'm told it is unlikely this would fail to be true.
202 The MAXMEM may also prevent Emacs from running. The file
203 3B-MAXMEM in this directory explains how to increase MAXMEM.
205 On some of these machines, you may need to define IN_SCCS_ID
206 in config.h to make Emacs work. Supposedly you can tell whether
207 this is necessary by checking something in /usr/include/sys/time.h;
208 we do not know precisely what.
210 AT&T 7300 or 3b1 (m68k-att-sysv)
212 18.52 worked. If you have strange troubles with dumping
213 Emacs, delete the last few lines from `src/m/7300.h' and recompile.
214 These lines are supposed to produce a sharable executable.
216 `src/m/7300.h' defines SHORTNAMES because operating system versions
217 older than 3.5 did not support long symbol names. Version 3.5 does
218 support them, so you can remove the #define SHORTNAMES in that
221 Bull DPX/2 models 2nn or 3nn (m68k-bull-sysv3)
223 Minor fixes merged into 19.19, which should work with CC or GCC.
225 You should compile with all the POSIX stuff: undef _SYSV and define
226 _POSIX_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE and _BULL_SOURCE.
228 On bos2.00.45 there is a bug that makes the F_SETOWN fcntl
229 call enters in an infinite loop. F_SETOWN_BUG has been defined to avoid
232 Bull DPX/20 (rs6000-bull-bosx)
236 Bull sps7 (m68k-bull-sysv2)
238 Changes partially merged in version 19, but some fixes are probably required.
244 Celerity (celerity-celerity-bsd4.2)
246 Version 18.49 worked. This configuration name is a hack, because we
247 don't know the processor used by Celerities. If someone
248 who uses a Celerity could get in touch with us, we can teach
249 config.sub a better name for the configuration.
251 Clipper (clipper-???)
253 Version 19 has support for some brand of clipper system. If you
254 have successfully built Emacs 19 on some sort of clipper system, let
255 us know so we can flesh out this entry.
257 Note that the Orion 105 is also a clipper, but some system-related
258 parameters are different.
260 Convex (c1-convex-bsd, c2-convex-bsd, c32-convex-bsd, c34-convex-bsd,
263 Support updated and residual bugs fixed in 19.26.
265 Cubix QBx/386 (i386-cubix-sysv)
267 Changes merged in 19.1. Systems before 2/A/0 may fail to compile etags.c
268 due to a compiler bug.
270 Cydra 5 (cydra-cydrome-sysv)
272 18.51 worked in one version of their operating system but stopped
273 working in a newer version. This has not been fixed.
275 Data General Aviion (m88k-dg-dgux)
277 19.23 works; however, the GCC provided with DGUX 5.4R3.00 fails to
278 compile src/emacs.c. GCC 2.5.8 does work.
279 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work; no word on which compiler.
280 System versions other than DGUX 5.4R3.00 have not been tested.
282 DGUX 5.4R3.10 works with 19.29 and 19.30.
284 DGUX R4.11 contains changes to the stdio internals and it doesn't work
285 with versions before 20.2 without patches. 20.2 works in interactive
286 mode but usually fails in batch mode. The problem is that using
287 stderr in the dumped emacs usually leads to a segmentation fault.
288 Only m88k has been tested.
290 DECstation (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf)
292 This machine is the older Mips-based DECstation.
293 Emacs should now work on the Alpha CPU.
295 19.25 works on Ultrix 4.2. The 19.26 pretest was reported to work
296 on Ultrix 4.2a and on 4.4.
298 One user reported 19.25 did not work at all with --with-x-toolkit
299 using X11R5 patch level 10, but worked ok with X11R5 pl26.
301 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix.
302 Note that this is a MIPS machine.
304 For Ultrix versions 4.1 or earlier, you may need to define
305 SYSTEM_MALLOC in `src/m/pmax.h', because XvmsAlloc.o in libX11.a seems
306 to insist on defining malloc itself.
308 For Ultrix versions prior to 4.0, you may need to delete
309 the definition of START_FILES from `src/m/pmax.h'.
311 Motorola Delta 147 (m68k-motorola-sysv)
313 The EMacs 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
315 Motorola Delta boxes running System V/68 release 3.
316 Tested on 147 board with SVR3V7, no X and gcc.
317 Tested on 167 board with SVR3V7, no X, cc, gnucc and gcc.
318 Reports say it works with X too.
320 The installation script chooses the compiler itself. gnucc is
323 Motorola Delta 187 (m88k-motorola-sysv,
324 m88k-motorola-sysvr4, or
325 m88k-motorola-m88kbcs)
327 The 19.26 pretest was reported to run on SVR3. However, if you
328 use --with-x-toolkit on svr3, you will have problems compiling some
329 files because time.h and sys/time.h get included twice.
330 One fix is to edit those files to protect against multiple inclusion.
332 As of version 19.13, Emacs was reported to run under SYSVr3 and SYSVr4.
334 Dual running System V (m68k-dual-sysv)
336 As of 17.46, this worked except for a few changes
339 Dual running Uniplus (m68k-dual-uniplus)
343 Elxsi 6400 (elxsi-elxsi-sysv)
345 Changes for 12.0 release are in 19.1.
346 Dumping should work now.
348 Encore machine (ns16k-encore-bsd)
350 This machine bizarrely uses 4.2BSD modified to use the COFF format
351 for object files. Works (as of 18.40). For the APC processor you
352 must enable two lines at the end of `src/s/umax.h', which are commented
353 out in the file as distributed.
355 WARNING: If you compile Emacs with the "-O" compiler switch, you
356 must also use the "-q enter_exits" switch so that all functions have
357 stack frames. Otherwise routines that call `alloca' all lose.
359 A kernel bug in some system versions causes input characters to be lost
362 Fujitsu DS/90 (sparc-fujitsu-sysv4)
364 Changes merged in 20.3.
366 GEC 63 (local-gec63-usg5.2)
368 Changes are partially merged in version 18, but certainly require
369 more work. Let us know if you get this working, and we'll give it a
370 real configuration name.
372 Gould Power Node (pn-gould-bsd4.2 or pn-gould-bsd4.3)
374 18.36 worked on versions 1.2 and 2.0 of the operating system.
376 On UTX/32 2.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.3.
378 On UTX/32 1.2 and UTX/32S 1.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.2 and note that
379 compiling `lib-src/sorted-doc' tickles a compiler bug: remove the -g
380 flag to cc in the makefile.
382 UTX/32 1.3 has a bug in the bcopy library routine. Fix it by
383 #undef BSTRING in `src/m/gould.h'.
385 Version 19 incorporates support for releases 2.1 and later of UTX/32.
386 A site running a pre-release of 2.1 should #define RELEASE2_1 in config.h.
388 Gould NP1 (np1-gould-bsd)
390 Version 19 supposedly works.
392 Harris Night Hawk (m68k-harris-cxux or m88k-harris-cxux)
394 This port was added in 19.23. The configuration actually tested was
395 a Night Hawk 4800 running CX/UX 7.0.
397 If you have GCC ported and want to build with it, you probably need to
398 change things (like compiler switches) defined in the s/cxux.h file.
400 If you have X11R6 installed in /usr/lib, configure will fail to find
401 it and may find X11R5 instead. To work around this problem, use
402 --x-libraries=/usr/lib when you run configure.
404 With CX/UX 7.0 and later releases, you need to build after setting the
405 SDE_TARGET environment variable to COFF (a port using ELF and shared
406 libraries has not yet been done).
408 Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
410 Patches have been merged in 19.31.
412 Honeywell XPS100 (xps100-honeywell-sysv)
414 Config file added in version 19.
416 Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 (m68k-hp-bsd or m68k-hp-hpux
419 These machines are 68000-series CPUs running HP/UX
420 (a derivative of sysV with some BSD features) or BSD 4.3 ported by Utah.
421 The operating system suffix determines which system Emacs is built for.
423 Series 200 HPUX runs Emacs only if it has the "HP/UX upgrade".
425 Version 19 works under BSD. The 19.26 pretest was reported
426 to work on HPUX 9. 19.31 works on HPUX 10.01, but there are
427 some problems on 10.10 which have not been resolved. Emacs 19.34
428 works on HPUX 10.20 provided you compile with GCC; with the HP C
429 compiler, subprocess commands do not work.
431 On HPUX 9, Emacs sometimes crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you
432 delete a frame. We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries
433 provided by HP. With the alternative X libraries in
434 /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem does not happen.
436 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
437 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
438 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
439 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
441 Note that HP has used two incompatible assembler syntaxes,
442 and has recently changed the format of C function frames.
443 `src/crt0.c' and `src/alloca.s' have been conditionalised for the new
444 assembler and new function-entry sequence. You may need to define
445 OLD_HP_ASSEMBLER if you are using an older hpux version. If you
446 have an official (bought from HP) series 300 machine you have
447 the new assembler. Kernels that are 5.+ or later have new
448 assembler. A Series 200 that has been upgraded to a 68010
449 processor and a 5.+ kernel has the new compiler.
451 Define C_SWITCH_MACHINE to be +X to make a version of Emacs that
452 runs on both 68010 and 68020 based HP/UX's.
454 Define HPUX_68010 if you are using the new assembler, for
455 a system that has a 68010 without a 68881. This is to say,
456 a s200 (upgraded) or s310.
458 Define the symbol HPUX_NET if you have the optional network features
459 that include the `netunam' system call. This is referred to as
460 Network Services (NS/9000) in HP literature.
462 HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
464 The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
465 which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
466 and support for it would be difficult to implement.
468 HP 9000 series 700 or 800 (Spectrum) (hppa1.0-hp-hpux or hppa1.1-hp-hpux
469 or ...hpux9shr, or ...-nextstep)
471 Use hppa1.1 for the 700 series and hppa1.0 for the 800
472 series machines. (Emacs may not actually care which one you use.)
474 Support for NextSTEP was added in 19.31.
476 Emacs 20 may work on HPUX 10. You need patch PHSS_6202 to install
477 the Xaw and Xmu libraries. On HPUX 10.20 you may need to compile with GCC;
478 when Emacs was compiled with HP's C compiler, HP92453-01 A.10.32.03,
479 the subprocess features failed to work.
481 19.26 is believed to work on HPUX 9 provided you compile with GCC.
482 As of version 19.16, Emacs was reported to build (using GCC) and run
483 on HP 9000/700 series machines running HP/UX versions 8.07 and 9.01.
484 The HP compiler is known to fail on some versions if you use +O3,
485 but it may work with lower optimization levels.
487 Use hppa1.1-hp-hpux9shr to use shared libraries on HPUX version 9.
488 You may need to create the X libraries libXaw.a and libXmu.a from
489 the MIT X distribute, and you may need to edit src/Makefile's
490 definition of LIBXT to look like this:
492 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu -lXt $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
494 Some people report trouble using the GNU memory allocator under
495 HP/UX version 9. The problems often manifest as lots of ^@'s in the
498 We are told that these problems go away if you obtain the latest
499 patches for the HP/UX C compiler. James J Dempsey
500 <jjd@spserv.bbn.com> says that this set of versions works for him:
502 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
504 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
505 HP-UX SLLIC/OPTIMIZER HP-UX.09.00.23 02/18/93
506 Ucode Code Generator - HP-UX.09.00.23.5 (patch) 2/18/93
508 For 700 series machines, the HP-UX patch needed is known as
509 PHSS_2653. (Perhaps for 800 series machines as well; we don't
510 know.) If you are on the Internet, you should be able to obtain
511 this patch by using telnet to access the machine
512 support.mayfield.hp.com and logging in as "hpslreg" and following
513 the instructions there. Or you may be able to use this
516 HP Patch Server: http://support.mayfield.hp.com/patches/html/patches.html
517 HP Support Line: http://support.mayfield.hp.com
519 Please do not ask FSF for further support on this. If you have any
520 trouble obtaining the patch, contact HP Software Support.
522 If your buffer fills up with nulls (^@) at some point, it could well
523 be that problem. That problem does not happen when people use GCC
524 to compile Emacs. On the other hand, the HP compiler version 9.34
525 was reported to work for the 19.26 pretest. 9.65 was also reported to work.
527 If you turn on the DSUSP character (delayed suspend),
528 Emacs 19.26 does not know how to turn it off on HPUX.
529 You need to turn it off manually.
531 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
532 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
533 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
534 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
536 High Level Hardware Orion (orion-highlevel-bsd)
538 This is the original microprogrammed hardware.
539 Machine description file ought to work.
541 High Level Hardware Orion 1/05 (clipper-highlevel-bsd)
543 Changes merged in 18.52. This is the one with the Clipper cpu.
544 Note that systems which lack NFS need LOAD_AVE_TYPE changed to `double'.
546 C compiler has a bug; it loops compiling eval.c.
547 Compile it by hand without optimization.
549 HITACHI SR2001/SR2201 series (hppa1.1-hitachi-hiuxwe2)
551 These machines are based on PA architecture running HI-UX/MPP
552 (based on OSF1. `MPP' stands for `Massively Parallel Processor').
554 Emacs 19.34 is believed to work; its pretest was tested
555 both on SR2001 (output of `uname -rv' is `00-01-BB 0') and
558 Emacs 20.7 was reported to build on a system whose `uname -rs'
559 output is `HI-UX/MPP 03-04'.
561 The machine description file is `src/m/sr2k.h' is based on
562 `src/m/hp800.h'. The system description file is `src/s/hiuxwe2.h'
563 based on `src/s/osf1.h'. Note that this system doesn't use COFF.
565 IBM PS/2 (i386-ibm-aix1.1 or i386-ibm-aix1.2)
567 Changes merged in version 19. You may need to copy
568 /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c to the Emacs src directory.
570 i386-ibm-aix1.1 may not work with certain new X window managers, and
573 IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
575 Emacs 19.26 is believed to work; its pretest was tested.
577 Compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5' might
578 fail because libXbsd isn't found. This is a compiler bug;
579 re-configure Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
581 On AIX 4.3.x and 4.4, compiling with /bin/c89 fails because it
582 treats certain warnings as errors. Use `cc' instead.
584 At last report, Emacs didn't run well on terminals. Informed
585 persons say that the tty VMIN and VTIME settings have been
586 corrupted; if you have a fix, please send it to us.
588 Compiling with -O using the IBM compiler has been known
589 to make Emacs work incorrectly. It's reported that on
590 AIX 3.2.5 with an IBM compiler earlier than 1.03.00.14,
591 cc -O fails for some files. You need to install any
592 PTF containing APAR #IX42810 to bring the compiler to
593 the 1.03.00.14 level to allow optimized compiles.
595 There are reports that IBM compiler versions earlier than 1.03.00.02
596 fail even without -O. However, another report said that compiler
597 version 1.02.01.00 did work, on AIX 3.2.4, with Emacs 19.31.
599 As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
601 If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
602 ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
603 as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
605 If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
606 with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
608 IBM RT/PC (romp-ibm-bsd or romp-ibm-aix)
610 Use romp-ibm-bsd for the 4.2-like system and romp-ibm-aix for AIX.
611 19.22 is reported to work under bsd. We don't know about AIX.
613 On BSD, if you have trouble, try compiling with a different compiler.
615 On AIX, the file /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c must be compiled into
616 hftctl.o, with this result left in the src directory (hftctl.c is
617 part of the standard AIX distribution).
619 window.c must not be compiled with -O on AIX.
621 IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
623 As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
626 Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
628 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
629 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
630 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
631 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
632 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
635 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
637 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
638 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
639 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
640 indicates the Umax operating system).
642 Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, i386-*-bsdi2,
643 i386-*-xenix, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
644 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
645 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
646 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2, i386-*-cygwin,
647 i386-*-sco3.2v4, i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
648 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
649 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
651 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
652 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
653 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
655 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
656 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
657 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
658 Use i386-*-esix for Esix; Emacs runs as of version 19.6.
659 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
660 Use i386-*-cygwin for Cygwin; Emacs builds as of version 22.1, in both X11
661 and non-X11 modes. (The Cygwin site has source and binaries for 21.2.)
662 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
663 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
664 Use i386-*-sco3.2v4 for SCO 3.2v4; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
666 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
667 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
668 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
670 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
672 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
675 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
677 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
678 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
679 Newer system versions have fixed it.
681 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
683 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
684 The reasons are not yet known.
686 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
687 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
688 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
689 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
690 configure to run another shell such as bash.
692 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
693 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
694 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
696 If you are using Xenix, see notes at end under Xenix.
697 If you are using Esix, see notes at end under Esix.
698 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
700 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
701 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
702 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
703 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
705 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
706 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
707 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
708 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
710 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
711 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
712 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
713 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
714 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
715 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
717 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
718 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
719 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
721 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
722 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
724 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
727 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
728 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
729 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
730 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
733 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
734 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
736 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
739 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
740 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
741 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
742 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
743 according to whether you have the file.
745 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
746 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
747 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
749 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
750 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
752 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
753 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
754 to config.h to solve this problem.
756 Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
758 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
759 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
760 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
762 Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
764 Emacs 21.3 is reported to work on IRIX 6.5.x.
766 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
767 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
768 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
769 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
771 If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
772 for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
773 problem should go away. It is possible that this problem results
774 from upgrading the operating system without reinstalling GCC; so you
775 could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
776 whether that fixes the problem.
778 Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
780 18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
781 with minor fixes that are included in 18.37. However, bizarre behavior
782 was reported for 18.36 on a Masscomp (model and version unknown but probably
783 a 68020 system). The report sounds like a compiler bug.
785 A compiler bug affecting statements like
786 unsigned char k; unsigned char *p;... x = p[k];
787 has been reported for "C version 1.2 under RTU 3.1". We do not wish
788 to take the time to install the numerous workarounds required to
789 compensate for this bug.
791 For RTU version 3.1, define FIRST_PTY_LETTER to be 'p' in `src/s/rtu.h'
792 (or #undef and redefine it in config.h) so that ptys will be used.
794 GNU Emacs is said to have no chance of compiling on RTU versions
797 Megatest (m68k-megatest-bsd)
799 Emacs 15 worked; do not have any reports about Emacs 16 or 17
800 but any new bugs are probably not difficult.
802 Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
804 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
805 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
807 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
808 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
809 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
810 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
813 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
814 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
816 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
817 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
819 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
820 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
821 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
823 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
824 line in etc/Makefile:
826 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
828 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
829 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
830 the system to give a proper signal.
832 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
833 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
834 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
835 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
837 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
838 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
839 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
841 National Semiconductor 32000 (ns32k-ns-genix)
843 This is for a complete machine from National Semiconductor,
844 running Genix. Changes merged in version 19.
846 NCR Tower 32 (m68k-ncr-sysv2 or m68k-ncr-sysv3)
848 If you are running System V release 2, use m68k-ncr-sysv2.
849 If you are running System V release 3, use m68k-ncr-sysv3.
851 These both worked as of 18.56. If you change `src/ymakefile' so that
852 CFLAGS includes C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH rather than C_DEBUG_SWITCH, check
853 out the comments in `src/m/tower32.h' (for System V release 2) or
854 `src/m/tower32v3.h' (for System V release 3) about this.
856 There is a report that compilation with -O did not work with 18.54
857 under System V release 2.
859 NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
861 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
862 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
863 to find the X libraries.
865 NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
867 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
868 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
870 NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
872 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
873 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
874 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
877 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
878 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
881 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
883 Nixdorf Targon 31 (m68k-nixdorf-sysv)
885 Machine description file for version 17 is included in 18
886 but whether it works is not known.
887 `src/unexec.c' bombs if compiled with -O.
888 Note that the "Targon 35" is really a Pyramid.
890 Nu (TI or LMI) (m68k-nu-sysv)
892 Version 18 is believed to work.
894 Paragon OSF/1 (i860-intel-osf1)
896 Changes merged in 19.29.
898 There is a bug in OSF/1 make which claims there is a syntax error
899 in the src/xmakefile. You can successfully build emacs with:
903 Plexus (m68k-plexus-sysv)
907 Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
909 See under DECstation, above.
911 Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
913 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
915 Pyramid (pyramid-pyramid-bsd)
917 The 19.26 pretest was observed to work on OSx 5.0, but it is necessary
918 to edit gmalloc.c. You must add #include <sys/types.h> at the top,
919 and delete the #define for size_t.
921 You need to build Emacs in the Berkeley universe with
922 the `ucb' command, as in `ucb make' or `ucb build-install'.
924 In OSx 4.0, it seems necessary to add the following two lines
925 to `src/m/pyramid.h':
926 #define _longjmp longjmp
927 #define _setjmp setjmp
929 In Pyramid system 2.5 there has been a compiler bug making
930 Emacs crash just after screen-splitting with Qnil containing 0.
931 A compiler that fixes this is Pyramid customer number 8494,
932 internal number 1923.
934 Some versions of the pyramid compiler get fatal
935 errors when the -gx compiler switch is used; if this
936 happens to you, change `src/m/pyramid.h' to define
937 C_DEBUG_SWITCH with an empty definition.
939 Some old system versions may require you to define PYRAMID_OLD
940 in when alloca.s is preprocessed, in order to define _longjmp and _setjmp.
942 Sequent Balance (ns32k-sequent-bsd4.2 or ns32k-sequent-bsd4.3)
944 Emacs 18.51 worked on system version 3.0. 18.52 is said to work.
945 Delete some lines at the end of `src/m/sequent.h' for earlier system
948 Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
950 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
952 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
953 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
954 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
956 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
957 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
959 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
960 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
961 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
962 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
963 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
964 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
965 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
967 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
968 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
970 Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
972 Changes merged in 19.29. This configuration should also work for
973 Pyramid MIS Server running DC-OSX 1.x. The version configured with
974 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
975 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
976 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
977 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
979 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
980 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
982 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
983 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
984 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
985 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
987 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
988 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
990 SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
992 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
994 SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
996 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
998 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
999 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
1000 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
1001 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
1002 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
1003 in data.c if you wish.
1005 Stardent i860 (i860-stardent-sysv4.0)
1007 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1009 Stardent 1500 or 3000
1013 Stride (m68k-stride-sysv)
1015 Works (most recent news for 18.30) on their release 2.0.
1016 For release 2.2, see the end of `src/m/stride.h'.
1017 It may be possible to run on their V.1 system but changes
1018 in the s- file would be needed.
1020 Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
1021 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3noshr, sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
1022 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
1024 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
1025 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
1026 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
1027 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
1028 compilation): env CC="cc -xarch=v9" ./configure
1030 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
1033 Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
1034 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
1035 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
1036 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
1037 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
1039 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
1040 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
1041 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
1042 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
1043 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
1044 and the default CFLAGS.
1046 Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 built with Sun's ProWorks PC3.0.1 compiler on
1047 Intel/Solaris 8 was reported to abort and dump core during startup.
1048 Using GCC or a newer SUN compiler (Sun WokShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
1049 2001/05/15) solves the problem.
1051 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
1052 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
1053 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
1055 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
1056 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
1058 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
1059 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
1061 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
1062 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
1063 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
1065 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
1066 bad code for some part of Emacs.
1068 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
1069 provided you completely replace your C shared library
1070 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
1071 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
1072 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
1073 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
1075 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
1076 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
1077 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
1079 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
1080 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
1081 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
1083 It's important to include the SunOS version number in the
1084 configuration name. For example, for SunOS release 4.0 on a Sun 3,
1085 use `m68k-sun-sunos4.0'; for SunOS release 4.1 on a Sparc, use
1086 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1'. For SunOS release 4.1.3 on a Sparc, use
1087 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3'. Note that shared libraries are now
1088 used by default on SunOS 4.1.
1090 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
1091 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
1092 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
1093 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
1095 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
1096 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
1097 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
1098 #define ForceNormalLib YES
1099 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
1100 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
1102 Use `m68k' for the 68000-based Sun boxes, `sparc' for Sparcstations,
1103 and `i386' for Sun Roadrunners. i386 calls for Sunos4.0.
1105 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
1106 when linking temacs, such as
1107 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
1108 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
1109 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
1110 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
1112 On SunOS 4.1.1, do not use /usr/5bin/cc. You can use gcc or/usr/bin/cc.
1113 Make sure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.
1115 Some people report crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined.
1116 Others have reported that Emacs works if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined, and not
1117 if it is undefined. So far we do not know why results vary in this way.
1118 The sources are set up so that SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined; if that crashes,
1119 or if you want the benefit of the relocating memory allocator, you can
1120 try enabling the #undef SYSTEM_MALLOC in src/s/sunos4-1-3.h.
1122 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
1123 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
1124 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
1125 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1127 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
1128 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
1129 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
1130 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
1131 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
1132 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
1133 rather than an Emacs bug.
1135 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
1136 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
1137 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
1140 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
1141 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
1142 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
1143 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
1144 software in the nonshared standard library.
1146 If you want to use SunWindows, define HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS
1147 in config.h to enable a special interface called `emacstool'.
1148 The definition must *precede* the #include "machine.h".
1149 System version 3.2 is required for this facility to work.
1151 We recommend that you instead use the X window system, which
1152 has technical advantages, is an industry standard, and is also
1153 free software. The FSF does not support the SunWindows code;
1154 we installed it only on the understanding we would not let it
1155 divert our efforts from what we think is important.
1157 If you are compiling for X windows, and the X window library was
1158 compiled to use the 68881, then you must edit config.h according
1159 the comments at the end of `src/m/sun3.h'.
1161 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
1162 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
1163 original text section and the original data section
1164 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
1167 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
1168 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
1170 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
1171 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
1172 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
1173 are really relevant.
1175 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
1176 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
1177 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
1178 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
1179 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
1180 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
1182 Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
1184 Changes merged in 19.1.
1186 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
1187 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
1189 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
1191 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
1193 Tahoe (tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.2 or tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.3)
1195 18.52 was known to work on some Tahoes, but a compiler bug intervenes
1196 on others. Some Emacs versions have worked in Unisys 1r4
1197 (not in 1r3) and CCI I.21.
1199 If you have trouble compiling `lib-src/loadst.c', turn off the definition
1200 of DKSTAT_HEADER_FILE in `src/m/tahoe.h'.
1202 Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
1204 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
1205 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
1207 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
1209 Tektronix XD88 (m88k-tektronix-sysv3*)
1211 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
1212 Minor changes merged in 19.19.
1214 Tektronix 16000 box (6130?) (ns16k-tektronix-bsd)
1218 Tektronix 4300 (m68k-tektronix-bsd)
1220 Emacs 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1222 Titan P2 or P3 (titan-titan-sysv)
1224 Changes probably merged in version 19.
1226 Ustation E30 (SS5E) (m68k-unisys-unipl)
1228 Changes merged in 18.52; don't know whether they work.
1230 Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
1231 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
1232 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
1237 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
1239 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
1241 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
1243 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1244 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1245 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1246 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1248 Whitechapel MG1 (ns16k-whitechapel-?)
1250 May work. Supposedly no changes were needed except in `src/m/mg1.h'
1251 file. I do not know what Unix version runs on them.
1253 Wicat (m68k-wicat-sysv)
1255 Changes merged as of 18.6; whether they work is unknown.
1256 See comments in `src/m/wicat.h' for things you should change
1257 depending on the system and compiler version you have.
1259 Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
1261 Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
1265 Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
1267 Works on several machines.
1269 Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
1271 Works, on Vaxes at least.
1275 The following was written for Emacs 18.59 and has been
1276 slightly adapted for Emacs 19. It may need more change to be correct.
1278 Use s/usg5-4.h for Esix System V 4.0.[34] systems if you also have
1279 XFree86. If you insist on using the Esix X Window libraries, good
1280 luck. s/esix5r4.h provides a starting point, but doesn't seem to
1281 work consistently. The basic problems involve the need to load
1282 -lX11 *last* in the link command, and even then some things break.
1283 You get best results by installing XFree86 and forgetting about the
1284 Esix stuff unless you want to run IXI xdt3, which really only needs
1285 the Esix X11 shared libraries.
1287 To compile with XFree86, make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
1288 contains /usr/X386/lib. Be careful if you also have the Esix X
1289 Window libraries that /usr/X386/lib appears *first* in the
1290 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then define C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM -I/usr/X386/include.
1292 Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
1294 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
1295 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
1296 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
1298 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
1299 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
1300 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
1301 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
1302 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
1303 redistributable software from some other source.
1305 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
1306 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
1307 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
1308 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
1309 directory for more explanation.
1313 See under "Intel 386".
1317 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
1318 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
1319 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
1322 If you have TCP but not X, you need to edit src/s/sco4.h
1323 to define HAVE_SOCKETS.
1325 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
1326 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
1327 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
1328 sendmail if it exists.
1330 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
1333 System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
1335 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
1336 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
1337 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
1339 System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
1341 Works on various machines.
1342 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
1343 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
1345 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
1346 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
1348 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
1349 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
1350 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
1351 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
1353 System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
1355 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
1356 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
1357 is used to enable the other interface.
1359 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
1361 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
1362 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
1363 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
1364 machines running 5.2.2.
1366 System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
1368 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
1369 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
1371 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
1372 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
1374 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
1375 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
1376 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
1378 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
1379 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
1380 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
1381 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
1382 installing Xfree86 to fix this.
1384 System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
1386 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
1387 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
1388 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
1389 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
1390 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
1391 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
1392 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
1394 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
1395 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
1397 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
1398 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
1399 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
1401 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
1402 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
1403 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
1404 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
1405 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
1406 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
1407 X11 library is new enough.
1409 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
1410 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
1411 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
1412 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
1415 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
1416 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
1417 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
1418 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
1422 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
1423 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
1425 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
1426 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
1427 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
1429 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
1431 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
1432 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
1435 Then I ran the following:
1437 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
1439 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
1441 Uniplus 5.2 (unipl5.2)
1443 Works, on Dual machines at least.
1447 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1448 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1449 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1450 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1452 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
1453 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
1454 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
1456 Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
1458 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
1463 Should work in 18.50, but you will need to edit the files
1464 `lib-src/Makefile' and `src/ymakefile'
1465 (see the comments that mention "Xenix" for what to change.)
1466 Compiling Emacs with -O is said not to work.
1468 If you want Emacs to work with Smail (installed as /usr/bin/smail)
1469 then add the line #define SMAIL to config.h.
1471 The file etc/XENIX suggests some useful things to do to Xenix
1472 to make the Emacs meta key work.
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