3 Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
4 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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 except 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 compiles and works fine under CC 6.9.
160 It now probably works under other versions of the compiler, as well.
162 The Apollo Domain CC compiler will issue quite a few warning messages,
163 mostly complaining about incompatible pointers. In general, these are
164 harmless and can be ignored. If you discover otherwise, please submit a bug
165 report identifying the problem in detail.
167 When you try to dump emacs, you may get the message ".rwdi section needs
168 relocation." This means you are linking with some code that has compressed
169 data sections. In some cases this comes from linking with X libraries. Try
170 using shared X libraries instead. With some versions of Domain/OS this is
171 as simple as removing the "-lX11" from the LIBX line in src/Makefile.
173 When running the configure script, use the configuration name
174 "m68k-apollo-bsd". You will also need to use the "-with-gcc=no" and
175 "-with-x" options. Depending upon your site configuration, you may have to
176 use other configure options, as well. Examine the INSTALL file for other
179 Check out the file 'lisp/x-apollo.el'. To use it, add
183 to your .emacs file. It provides useful default Apollo function key
186 AT&T 3b2, 3b5, 3b15, 3b20 (we32k-att-sysv)
188 Emacs will probably not work with certain kernel constants too small.
190 In param.h CDLIMIT should be at least (1L << 12) in order to allow
191 processes to write up to 2 Mbyte files. This parameter is configurable
192 by normal means in /etc/master.d/kernel; examine that file for the
193 symbol CDLIMIT or ULIMIT, and raise it by several powers of 2. Then
194 do normal kernel rebuild things via "cd /boot; mkboot -k KERNEL" and so
197 In seg.h NSEGP and STACKSEG should be at least 16 and 4 respectively
198 to allow processes with total size of up to 2Mbytes.
199 However, I'm told it is unlikely this would fail to be true.
201 The MAXMEM may also prevent Emacs from running. The file
202 3B-MAXMEM in this directory explains how to increase MAXMEM.
204 On some of these machines, you may need to define IN_SCCS_ID
205 in config.h to make Emacs work. Supposedly you can tell whether
206 this is necessary by checking something in /usr/include/sys/time.h;
207 we do not know precisely what.
209 AT&T 7300 or 3b1 (m68k-att-sysv)
211 18.52 worked. If you have strange troubles with dumping
212 Emacs, delete the last few lines from `src/m/7300.h' and recompile.
213 These lines are supposed to produce a sharable executable.
215 `src/m/7300.h' defines SHORTNAMES because operating system versions
216 older than 3.5 did not support long symbol names. Version 3.5 does
217 support them, so you can remove the #define SHORTNAMES in that
220 Bull DPX/2 models 2nn or 3nn (m68k-bull-sysv3)
222 Minor fixes merged into 19.19, which should work with CC or GCC.
224 You should compile with all the POSIX stuff: undef _SYSV and define
225 _POSIX_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE and _BULL_SOURCE.
227 On bos2.00.45 there is a bug that makes the F_SETOWN fcntl
228 call enters in an infinite loop. F_SETOWN_BUG has been defined to avoid
231 Bull DPX/20 (rs6000-bull-bosx)
235 Bull sps7 (m68k-bull-sysv2)
237 Changes partially merged in version 19, but some fixes are probably required.
243 Celerity (celerity-celerity-bsd4.2)
245 Version 18.49 worked. This configuration name is a hack, because we
246 don't know the processor used by Celerities. If someone
247 who uses a Celerity could get in touch with us, we can teach
248 config.sub a better name for the configuration.
250 Clipper (clipper-???)
252 Version 19 has support for some brand of clipper system. If you
253 have successfully built Emacs 19 on some sort of clipper system, let
254 us know so we can flesh out this entry.
256 Note that the Orion 105 is also a clipper, but some system-related
257 parameters are different.
259 Convex (c1-convex-bsd, c2-convex-bsd, c32-convex-bsd, c34-convex-bsd,
262 Support updated and residual bugs fixed in 19.26.
264 Cubix QBx/386 (i386-cubix-sysv)
266 Changes merged in 19.1. Systems before 2/A/0 may fail to compile etags.c
267 due to a compiler bug.
269 Cydra 5 (cydra-cydrome-sysv)
271 18.51 worked in one version of their operating system but stopped
272 working in a newer version. This has not been fixed.
274 Data General Aviion (m88k-dg-dgux)
276 19.23 works; however, the GCC provided with DGUX 5.4R3.00 fails to
277 compile src/emacs.c. GCC 2.5.8 does work.
278 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work; no word on which compiler.
279 System versions other than DGUX 5.4R3.00 have not been tested.
281 DGUX 5.4R3.10 works with 19.29 and 19.30.
283 DGUX R4.11 contains changes to the stdio internals and it doesn't work
284 with versions before 20.2 without patches. 20.2 works in interactive
285 mode but usually fails in batch mode. The problem is that using
286 stderr in the dumped emacs usually leads to a segmentation fault.
287 Only m88k has been tested.
289 DECstation (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf)
291 This machine is the older Mips-based DECstation.
292 Emacs should now work on the Alpha CPU.
294 19.25 works on Ultrix 4.2. The 19.26 pretest was reported to work
295 on Ultrix 4.2a and on 4.4.
297 One user reported 19.25 did not work at all with --with-x-toolkit
298 using X11R5 patch level 10, but worked ok with X11R5 pl26.
300 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix.
301 Note that this is a MIPS machine.
303 For Ultrix versions 4.1 or earlier, you may need to define
304 SYSTEM_MALLOC in `src/m/pmax.h', because XvmsAlloc.o in libX11.a seems
305 to insist on defining malloc itself.
307 For Ultrix versions prior to 4.0, you may need to delete
308 the definition of START_FILES from `src/m/pmax.h'.
310 Motorola Delta 147 (m68k-motorola-sysv)
312 The EMacs 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
314 Motorola Delta boxes running System V/68 release 3.
315 Tested on 147 board with SVR3V7, no X and gcc.
316 Tested on 167 board with SVR3V7, no X, cc, gnucc and gcc.
317 Reports say it works with X too.
319 The installation script chooses the compiler itself. gnucc is
322 Motorola Delta 187 (m88k-motorola-sysv,
323 m88k-motorola-sysvr4, or
324 m88k-motorola-m88kbcs)
326 The 19.26 pretest was reported to run on SVR3. However, if you
327 use --with-x-toolkit on svr3, you will have problems compiling some
328 files because time.h and sys/time.h get included twice.
329 One fix is to edit those files to protect against multiple inclusion.
331 As of version 19.13, Emacs was reported to run under SYSVr3 and SYSVr4.
333 Dual running System V (m68k-dual-sysv)
335 As of 17.46, this worked except for a few changes
338 Dual running Uniplus (m68k-dual-uniplus)
342 Elxsi 6400 (elxsi-elxsi-sysv)
344 Changes for 12.0 release are in 19.1.
345 Dumping should work now.
347 Encore machine (ns16k-encore-bsd)
349 This machine bizarrely uses 4.2BSD modified to use the COFF format
350 for object files. Works (as of 18.40). For the APC processor you
351 must enable two lines at the end of `src/s/umax.h', which are commented
352 out in the file as distributed.
354 WARNING: If you compile Emacs with the "-O" compiler switch, you
355 must also use the "-q enter_exits" switch so that all functions have
356 stack frames. Otherwise routines that call `alloca' all lose.
358 A kernel bug in some system versions causes input characters to be lost
361 Fujitsu DS/90 (sparc-fujitsu-sysv4)
363 Changes merged in 20.3.
365 GEC 63 (local-gec63-usg5.2)
367 Changes are partially merged in version 18, but certainly require
368 more work. Let us know if you get this working, and we'll give it a
369 real configuration name.
371 Gould Power Node (pn-gould-bsd4.2 or pn-gould-bsd4.3)
373 18.36 worked on versions 1.2 and 2.0 of the operating system.
375 On UTX/32 2.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.3.
377 On UTX/32 1.2 and UTX/32S 1.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.2 and note that
378 compiling `lib-src/sorted-doc' tickles a compiler bug: remove the -g
379 flag to cc in the makefile.
381 UTX/32 1.3 has a bug in the bcopy library routine. Fix it by
382 #undef BSTRING in `src/m/gould.h'.
384 Version 19 incorporates support for releases 2.1 and later of UTX/32.
385 A site running a pre-release of 2.1 should #define RELEASE2_1 in config.h.
387 Gould NP1 (np1-gould-bsd)
389 Version 19 supposedly works.
391 Harris Night Hawk (m68k-harris-cxux or m88k-harris-cxux)
393 This port was added in 19.23. The configuration actually tested was
394 a Night Hawk 4800 running CX/UX 7.0.
396 If you have GCC ported and want to build with it, you probably need to
397 change things (like compiler switches) defined in the s/cxux.h file.
399 If you have X11R6 installed in /usr/lib, configure will fail to find
400 it and may find X11R5 instead. To work around this problem, use
401 --x-libraries=/usr/lib when you run configure.
403 With CX/UX 7.0 and later releases, you need to build after setting the
404 SDE_TARGET environment variable to COFF (a port using ELF and shared
405 libraries has not yet been done).
407 Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
409 Patches have been merged in 19.31.
411 Honeywell XPS100 (xps100-honeywell-sysv)
413 Config file added in version 19.
415 Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 (m68k-hp-bsd or m68k-hp-hpux
418 These machines are 68000-series CPUs running HP/UX
419 (a derivative of sysV with some BSD features) or BSD 4.3 ported by Utah.
420 The operating system suffix determines which system Emacs is built for.
422 Series 200 HPUX runs Emacs only if it has the "HP/UX upgrade".
424 Version 19 works under BSD. The 19.26 pretest was reported
425 to work on HPUX 9. 19.31 works on HPUX 10.01, but there are
426 some problems on 10.10 which have not been resolved. Emacs 19.34
427 works on HPUX 10.20 provided you compile with GCC; with the HP C
428 compiler, subprocess commands do not work.
430 On HPUX 9, Emacs sometimes crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you
431 delete a frame. We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries
432 provided by HP. With the alternative X libraries in
433 /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem does not happen.
435 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
436 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
437 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
438 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
440 Note that HP has used two incompatible assembler syntaxes,
441 and has recently changed the format of C function frames.
442 `src/crt0.c' and `src/alloca.s' have been conditionalised for the new
443 assembler and new function-entry sequence. You may need to define
444 OLD_HP_ASSEMBLER if you are using an older hpux version. If you
445 have an official (bought from HP) series 300 machine you have
446 the new assembler. Kernels that are 5.+ or later have new
447 assembler. A Series 200 that has been upgraded to a 68010
448 processor and a 5.+ kernel has the new compiler.
450 Define C_SWITCH_MACHINE to be +X to make a version of Emacs that
451 runs on both 68010 and 68020 based HP/UX's.
453 Define HPUX_68010 if you are using the new assembler, for
454 a system that has a 68010 without a 68881. This is to say,
455 a s200 (upgraded) or s310.
457 Define the symbol HPUX_NET if you have the optional network features
458 that include the `netunam' system call. This is referred to as
459 Network Services (NS/9000) in HP literature.
461 HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
463 The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
464 which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
465 and support for it would be difficult to implement.
467 HP 9000 series 700 or 800 (Spectrum) (hppa1.0-hp-hpux or hppa1.1-hp-hpux
468 or ...hpux9shr, or ...-nextstep)
470 Use hppa1.1 for the 700 series and hppa1.0 for the 800
471 series machines. (Emacs may not actually care which one you use.)
473 Support for NextSTEP was added in 19.31.
475 Emacs 20 may work on HPUX 10. You need patch PHSS_6202 to install
476 the Xaw and Xmu libraries. On HPUX 10.20 you may need to compile with GCC;
477 when Emacs was compiled with HP's C compiler, HP92453-01 A.10.32.03,
478 the subprocess features failed to work.
480 19.26 is believed to work on HPUX 9 provided you compile with GCC.
481 As of version 19.16, Emacs was reported to build (using GCC) and run
482 on HP 9000/700 series machines running HP/UX versions 8.07 and 9.01.
483 The HP compiler is known to fail on some versions if you use +O3,
484 but it may work with lower optimization levels.
486 Use hppa1.1-hp-hpux9shr to use shared libraries on HPUX version 9.
487 You may need to create the X libraries libXaw.a and libXmu.a from
488 the MIT X distribute, and you may need to edit src/Makefile's
489 definition of LIBXT to look like this:
491 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu -lXt $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
493 Some people report trouble using the GNU memory allocator under
494 HP/UX version 9. The problems often manifest as lots of ^@'s in the
497 We are told that these problems go away if you obtain the latest
498 patches for the HP/UX C compiler. James J Dempsey
499 <jjd@spserv.bbn.com> says that this set of versions works for him:
501 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
503 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
504 HP-UX SLLIC/OPTIMIZER HP-UX.09.00.23 02/18/93
505 Ucode Code Generator - HP-UX.09.00.23.5 (patch) 2/18/93
507 For 700 series machines, the HP-UX patch needed is known as
508 PHSS_2653. (Perhaps for 800 series machines as well; we don't
509 know.) If you are on the Internet, you should be able to obtain
510 this patch by using telnet to access the machine
511 support.mayfield.hp.com and logging in as "hpslreg" and following
512 the instructions there. Or you may be able to use this
515 HP Patch Server: http://support.mayfield.hp.com/patches/html/patches.html
516 HP Support Line: http://support.mayfield.hp.com
518 Please do not ask FSF for further support on this. If you have any
519 trouble obtaining the patch, contact HP Software Support.
521 If your buffer fills up with nulls (^@) at some point, it could well
522 be that problem. That problem does not happen when people use GCC
523 to compile Emacs. On the other hand, the HP compiler version 9.34
524 was reported to work for the 19.26 pretest. 9.65 was also reported to work.
526 If you turn on the DSUSP character (delayed suspend),
527 Emacs 19.26 does not know how to turn it off on HPUX.
528 You need to turn it off manually.
530 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
531 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
532 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
533 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
535 High Level Hardware Orion (orion-highlevel-bsd)
537 This is the original microprogrammed hardware.
538 Machine description file ought to work.
540 High Level Hardware Orion 1/05 (clipper-highlevel-bsd)
542 Changes merged in 18.52. This is the one with the Clipper cpu.
543 Note that systems which lack NFS need LOAD_AVE_TYPE changed to `double'.
545 C compiler has a bug; it loops compiling eval.c.
546 Compile it by hand without optimization.
548 HITACHI SR2001/SR2201 series (hppa1.1-hitachi-hiuxwe2)
550 These machines are based on PA architecture running HI-UX/MPP
551 (based on OSF1. `MPP' stands for `Massively Parallel Processor').
553 Emacs 19.34 is believed to work; its pretest was tested
554 both on SR2001 (output of `uname -rv' is `00-01-BB 0') and
557 Emacs 20.7 was reported to build on a system whose `uname -rs'
558 output is `HI-UX/MPP 03-04'.
560 The machine description file is `src/m/sr2k.h' is based on
561 `src/m/hp800.h'. The system description file is `src/s/hiuxwe2.h'
562 based on `src/s/osf1.h'. Note that this system doesn't use COFF.
564 IBM PS/2 (i386-ibm-aix1.1 or i386-ibm-aix1.2)
566 Changes merged in version 19. You may need to copy
567 /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c to the Emacs src directory.
569 i386-ibm-aix1.1 may not work with certain new X window managers, and
572 IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
574 Emacs 19.26 is believed to work; its pretest was tested.
576 Compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5' might
577 fail because libXbsd isn't found. This is a compiler bug;
578 re-configure Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
580 On AIX 4.3.x and 4.4, compiling with /bin/c89 fails because it
581 treats certain warnings as errors. Use `cc' instead.
583 At last report, Emacs didn't run well on terminals. Informed
584 persons say that the tty VMIN and VTIME settings have been
585 corrupted; if you have a fix, please send it to us.
587 Compiling with -O using the IBM compiler has been known
588 to make Emacs work incorrectly. It's reported that on
589 AIX 3.2.5 with an IBM compiler earlier than 1.03.00.14,
590 cc -O fails for some files. You need to install any
591 PTF containing APAR #IX42810 to bring the compiler to
592 the 1.03.00.14 level to allow optimized compiles.
594 There are reports that IBM compiler versions earlier than 1.03.00.02
595 fail even without -O. However, another report said that compiler
596 version 1.02.01.00 did work, on AIX 3.2.4, with Emacs 19.31.
598 As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
600 If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
601 ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
602 as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
604 If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
605 with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
607 IBM RT/PC (romp-ibm-bsd or romp-ibm-aix)
609 Use romp-ibm-bsd for the 4.2-like system and romp-ibm-aix for AIX.
610 19.22 is reported to work under bsd. We don't know about AIX.
612 On BSD, if you have trouble, try compiling with a different compiler.
614 On AIX, the file /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c must be compiled into
615 hftctl.o, with this result left in the src directory (hftctl.c is
616 part of the standard AIX distribution).
618 window.c must not be compiled with -O on AIX.
620 IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
622 As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
625 Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
627 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
628 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
629 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
630 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
631 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
634 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
636 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
637 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
638 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
639 indicates the Umax operating system).
641 Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, i386-*-bsdi2,
642 i386-*-xenix, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
643 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
644 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
645 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2, i386-*-cygwin,
646 i386-*-sco3.2v4, i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
647 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
648 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
650 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
651 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
652 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
654 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
655 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
656 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
657 Use i386-*-esix for Esix; Emacs runs as of version 19.6.
658 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
659 Use i386-*-cygwin for Cygwin; Emacs builds as of version 22.1, in both X11
660 and non-X11 modes. (The Cygwin site has source and binaries for 21.2.)
661 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
662 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
663 Use i386-*-sco3.2v4 for SCO 3.2v4; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
665 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
666 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
667 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
669 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
671 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
674 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
676 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
677 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
678 Newer system versions have fixed it.
680 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
682 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
683 The reasons are not yet known.
685 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
686 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
687 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
688 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
689 configure to run another shell such as bash.
691 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
692 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
693 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
695 If you are using Xenix, see notes at end under Xenix.
696 If you are using Esix, see notes at end under Esix.
697 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
699 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
700 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
701 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
702 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
704 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
705 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
706 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
707 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
709 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
710 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
711 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
712 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
713 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
714 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
716 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
717 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
718 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
720 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
721 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
723 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
726 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
727 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
728 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
729 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
732 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
733 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
735 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
738 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
739 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
740 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
741 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
742 according to whether you have the file.
744 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
745 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
746 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
748 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
749 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
751 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
752 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
753 to config.h to solve this problem.
755 Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
757 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
758 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
759 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
761 Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
763 Emacs 21.3 is reported to work on IRIX 6.5.x.
765 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
766 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
767 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
768 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
770 If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
771 for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
772 problem should go away. It is possible that this problem results
773 from upgrading the operating system without reinstalling GCC; so you
774 could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
775 whether that fixes the problem.
777 Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
779 18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
780 with minor fixes that are included in 18.37. However, bizarre behavior
781 was reported for 18.36 on a Masscomp (model and version unknown but probably
782 a 68020 system). The report sounds like a compiler bug.
784 A compiler bug affecting statements like
785 unsigned char k; unsigned char *p;... x = p[k];
786 has been reported for "C version 1.2 under RTU 3.1". We do not wish
787 to take the time to install the numerous workarounds required to
788 compensate for this bug.
790 For RTU version 3.1, define FIRST_PTY_LETTER to be 'p' in `src/s/rtu.h'
791 (or #undef and redefine it in config.h) so that ptys will be used.
793 GNU Emacs is said to have no chance of compiling on RTU versions
796 Megatest (m68k-megatest-bsd)
798 Emacs 15 worked; do not have any reports about Emacs 16 or 17
799 but any new bugs are probably not difficult.
801 Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
803 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
804 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
806 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
807 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
808 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
809 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
812 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
813 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
815 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
816 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
818 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
819 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
820 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
822 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
823 line in etc/Makefile:
825 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
827 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
828 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
829 the system to give a proper signal.
831 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
832 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
833 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
834 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
836 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
837 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
838 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
840 National Semiconductor 32000 (ns32k-ns-genix)
842 This is for a complete machine from National Semiconductor,
843 running Genix. Changes merged in version 19.
845 NCR Tower 32 (m68k-ncr-sysv2 or m68k-ncr-sysv3)
847 If you are running System V release 2, use m68k-ncr-sysv2.
848 If you are running System V release 3, use m68k-ncr-sysv3.
850 These both worked as of 18.56. If you change `src/ymakefile' so that
851 CFLAGS includes C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH rather than C_DEBUG_SWITCH, check
852 out the comments in `src/m/tower32.h' (for System V release 2) or
853 `src/m/tower32v3.h' (for System V release 3) about this.
855 There is a report that compilation with -O did not work with 18.54
856 under System V release 2.
858 NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
860 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
861 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
862 to find the X libraries.
864 NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
866 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
867 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
869 NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
871 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
872 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
873 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
876 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
877 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
880 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
882 Nixdorf Targon 31 (m68k-nixdorf-sysv)
884 Machine description file for version 17 is included in 18
885 but whether it works is not known.
886 `src/unexec.c' bombs if compiled with -O.
887 Note that the "Targon 35" is really a Pyramid.
889 Nu (TI or LMI) (m68k-nu-sysv)
891 Version 18 is believed to work.
893 Paragon OSF/1 (i860-intel-osf1)
895 Changes merged in 19.29.
897 There is a bug in OSF/1 make which claims there is a syntax error
898 in the src/xmakefile. You can successfully build emacs with:
902 Plexus (m68k-plexus-sysv)
906 Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
908 See under DECstation, above.
910 Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
912 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
914 Pyramid (pyramid-pyramid-bsd)
916 The 19.26 pretest was observed to work on OSx 5.0, but it is necessary
917 to edit gmalloc.c. You must add #include <sys/types.h> at the top,
918 and delete the #define for size_t.
920 You need to build Emacs in the Berkeley universe with
921 the `ucb' command, as in `ucb make' or `ucb build-install'.
923 In OSx 4.0, it seems necessary to add the following two lines
924 to `src/m/pyramid.h':
925 #define _longjmp longjmp
926 #define _setjmp setjmp
928 In Pyramid system 2.5 there has been a compiler bug making
929 Emacs crash just after screen-splitting with Qnil containing 0.
930 A compiler that fixes this is Pyramid customer number 8494,
931 internal number 1923.
933 Some versions of the pyramid compiler get fatal
934 errors when the -gx compiler switch is used; if this
935 happens to you, change `src/m/pyramid.h' to define
936 C_DEBUG_SWITCH with an empty definition.
938 Some old system versions may require you to define PYRAMID_OLD
939 in when alloca.s is preprocessed, in order to define _longjmp and _setjmp.
941 Sequent Balance (ns32k-sequent-bsd4.2 or ns32k-sequent-bsd4.3)
943 Emacs 18.51 worked on system version 3.0. 18.52 is said to work.
944 Delete some lines at the end of `src/m/sequent.h' for earlier system
947 Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
949 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
951 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
952 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
953 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
955 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
956 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
958 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
959 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
960 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
961 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
962 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
963 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
964 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
966 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
967 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
969 Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
971 Changes merged in 19.29. This configuration should also work for
972 Pyramid MIS Server running DC-OSX 1.x. The version configured with
973 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
974 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
975 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
976 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
978 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
979 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
981 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
982 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
983 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
984 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
986 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
987 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
989 SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
991 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
993 SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
995 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
997 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
998 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
999 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
1000 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
1001 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
1002 in data.c if you wish.
1004 Stardent i860 (i860-stardent-sysv4.0)
1006 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1008 Stardent 1500 or 3000
1012 Stride (m68k-stride-sysv)
1014 Works (most recent news for 18.30) on their release 2.0.
1015 For release 2.2, see the end of `src/m/stride.h'.
1016 It may be possible to run on their V.1 system but changes
1017 in the s- file would be needed.
1019 Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
1020 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3noshr, sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
1021 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
1023 To build a 32-bit Emacs (i.e. if you are having any sort of problem
1024 bootstrapping a 64-bit version), you can use the Sun Studio compiler
1025 and configure Emacs with:
1026 env CC="cc -xarch=v7" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on SPARC systems
1027 env CC="cc -xarch=386" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on x86 systems
1028 On Solaris 2.10, it is also possible to use /usr/sfw/bin/gcc to build
1029 a 32-bit version of Emacs. Just make sure you point ./configure to
1032 env CC='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -m32' ./configure
1034 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
1035 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
1036 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
1037 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
1040 env CC="cc -xarch=v9" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on SPARC systems
1041 env CC="cc -xarch=amd64" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on x86 systems
1043 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
1046 Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
1047 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
1048 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
1049 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
1050 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
1052 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
1053 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
1054 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
1055 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
1056 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
1057 and the default CFLAGS.
1059 Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 built with Sun's ProWorks PC3.0.1 compiler on
1060 Intel/Solaris 8 was reported to abort and dump core during startup.
1061 Using GCC or a newer SUN compiler (Sun WokShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
1062 2001/05/15) solves the problem.
1064 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
1065 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
1066 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
1068 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
1069 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
1071 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
1072 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
1074 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
1075 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
1076 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
1078 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
1079 bad code for some part of Emacs.
1081 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
1082 provided you completely replace your C shared library
1083 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
1084 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
1085 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
1086 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
1088 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
1089 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
1090 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
1092 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
1093 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
1094 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
1096 It's important to include the SunOS version number in the
1097 configuration name. For example, for SunOS release 4.0 on a Sun 3,
1098 use `m68k-sun-sunos4.0'; for SunOS release 4.1 on a Sparc, use
1099 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1'. For SunOS release 4.1.3 on a Sparc, use
1100 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3'. Note that shared libraries are now
1101 used by default on SunOS 4.1.
1103 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
1104 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
1105 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
1106 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
1108 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
1109 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
1110 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
1111 #define ForceNormalLib YES
1112 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
1113 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
1115 Use `m68k' for the 68000-based Sun boxes, `sparc' for Sparcstations,
1116 and `i386' for Sun Roadrunners. i386 calls for Sunos4.0.
1118 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
1119 when linking temacs, such as
1120 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
1121 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
1122 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
1123 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
1125 On SunOS 4.1.1, do not use /usr/5bin/cc. You can use gcc or/usr/bin/cc.
1126 Make sure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.
1128 Some people report crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined.
1129 Others have reported that Emacs works if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined, and not
1130 if it is undefined. So far we do not know why results vary in this way.
1131 The sources are set up so that SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined; if that crashes,
1132 or if you want the benefit of the relocating memory allocator, you can
1133 try enabling the #undef SYSTEM_MALLOC in src/s/sunos4-1-3.h.
1135 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
1136 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
1137 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
1138 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1140 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
1141 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
1142 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
1143 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
1144 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
1145 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
1146 rather than an Emacs bug.
1148 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
1149 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
1150 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
1151 Solaris.) With this compiler, use `/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E' as the
1152 preprocessor. If this inserts extra whitespace into its output (see
1153 the PROBLEMS file) then add the option `-Xs'.
1155 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
1156 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
1157 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
1158 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
1159 software in the nonshared standard library.
1161 If you want to use SunWindows, define HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS
1162 in config.h to enable a special interface called `emacstool'.
1163 The definition must *precede* the #include "machine.h".
1164 System version 3.2 is required for this facility to work.
1166 We recommend that you instead use the X window system, which
1167 has technical advantages, is an industry standard, and is also
1168 free software. The FSF does not support the SunWindows code;
1169 we installed it only on the understanding we would not let it
1170 divert our efforts from what we think is important.
1172 If you are compiling for X windows, and the X window library was
1173 compiled to use the 68881, then you must edit config.h according
1174 the comments at the end of `src/m/sun3.h'.
1176 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
1177 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
1178 original text section and the original data section
1179 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
1182 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
1183 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
1185 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
1186 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
1187 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
1188 are really relevant.
1190 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
1191 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
1192 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
1193 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
1194 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
1195 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
1197 Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
1199 Changes merged in 19.1.
1201 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
1202 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
1204 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
1206 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
1208 Tahoe (tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.2 or tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.3)
1210 18.52 was known to work on some Tahoes, but a compiler bug intervenes
1211 on others. Some Emacs versions have worked in Unisys 1r4
1212 (not in 1r3) and CCI I.21.
1214 If you have trouble compiling `lib-src/loadst.c', turn off the definition
1215 of DKSTAT_HEADER_FILE in `src/m/tahoe.h'.
1217 Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
1219 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
1220 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
1222 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
1224 Tektronix XD88 (m88k-tektronix-sysv3*)
1226 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
1227 Minor changes merged in 19.19.
1229 Tektronix 16000 box (6130?) (ns16k-tektronix-bsd)
1233 Tektronix 4300 (m68k-tektronix-bsd)
1235 Emacs 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1237 Titan P2 or P3 (titan-titan-sysv)
1239 Changes probably merged in version 19.
1241 Ustation E30 (SS5E) (m68k-unisys-unipl)
1243 Changes merged in 18.52; don't know whether they work.
1245 Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
1246 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
1247 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
1252 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
1254 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
1256 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
1258 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1259 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1260 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1261 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1263 Whitechapel MG1 (ns16k-whitechapel-?)
1265 May work. Supposedly no changes were needed except in `src/m/mg1.h'
1266 file. I do not know what Unix version runs on them.
1268 Wicat (m68k-wicat-sysv)
1270 Changes merged as of 18.6; whether they work is unknown.
1271 See comments in `src/m/wicat.h' for things you should change
1272 depending on the system and compiler version you have.
1274 Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
1276 Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
1280 Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
1282 Works on several machines.
1284 Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
1286 Works, on Vaxes at least.
1290 The following was written for Emacs 18.59 and has been
1291 slightly adapted for Emacs 19. It may need more change to be correct.
1293 Use s/usg5-4.h for Esix System V 4.0.[34] systems if you also have
1294 XFree86. If you insist on using the Esix X Window libraries, good
1295 luck. s/esix5r4.h provides a starting point, but doesn't seem to
1296 work consistently. The basic problems involve the need to load
1297 -lX11 *last* in the link command, and even then some things break.
1298 You get best results by installing XFree86 and forgetting about the
1299 Esix stuff unless you want to run IXI xdt3, which really only needs
1300 the Esix X11 shared libraries.
1302 To compile with XFree86, make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
1303 contains /usr/X386/lib. Be careful if you also have the Esix X
1304 Window libraries that /usr/X386/lib appears *first* in the
1305 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then define C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM -I/usr/X386/include.
1307 Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
1309 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
1310 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
1311 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
1313 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
1314 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
1315 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
1316 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
1317 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
1318 redistributable software from some other source.
1320 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
1321 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
1322 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
1323 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
1324 directory for more explanation.
1328 See under "Intel 386".
1332 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
1333 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
1334 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
1337 If you have TCP but not X, you need to edit src/s/sco4.h
1338 to define HAVE_SOCKETS.
1340 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
1341 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
1342 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
1343 sendmail if it exists.
1345 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
1348 System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
1350 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
1351 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
1352 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
1354 System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
1356 Works on various machines.
1357 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
1358 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
1360 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
1361 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
1363 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
1364 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
1365 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
1366 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
1368 System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
1370 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
1371 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
1372 is used to enable the other interface.
1374 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
1376 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
1377 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
1378 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
1379 machines running 5.2.2.
1381 System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
1383 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
1384 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
1386 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
1387 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
1389 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
1390 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
1391 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
1393 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
1394 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
1395 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
1396 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
1397 installing XFree86 to fix this.
1399 System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
1401 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
1402 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
1403 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
1404 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
1405 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
1406 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
1407 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
1409 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
1410 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
1412 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
1413 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
1414 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
1416 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
1417 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
1418 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
1419 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
1420 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
1421 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
1422 X11 library is new enough.
1424 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
1425 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
1426 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
1427 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
1430 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
1431 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
1432 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
1433 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
1437 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
1438 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
1440 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
1441 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
1442 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
1444 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
1446 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
1447 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
1450 Then I ran the following:
1452 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
1454 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
1456 Uniplus 5.2 (unipl5.2)
1458 Works, on Dual machines at least.
1462 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1463 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1464 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1465 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1467 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
1468 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
1469 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
1471 Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
1473 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
1478 No special procedures should be needed to build a 64-bit Emacs. To
1479 build a 32-bit Emacs, first ensure that the necessary 32-bit system
1480 libraries and include files are installed. Then use:
1482 env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu \
1483 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
1485 (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system).
1489 Should work in 18.50, but you will need to edit the files
1490 `lib-src/Makefile' and `src/ymakefile'
1491 (see the comments that mention "Xenix" for what to change.)
1492 Compiling Emacs with -O is said not to work.
1494 If you want Emacs to work with Smail (installed as /usr/bin/smail)
1495 then add the line #define SMAIL to config.h.
1497 The file etc/XENIX suggests some useful things to do to Xenix
1498 to make the Emacs meta key work.
1505 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
1507 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
1508 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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1512 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1513 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1514 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1515 GNU General Public License for more details.
1517 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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1520 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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