1 This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
3 For each system and machine, we give the configuration name you should
4 pass to the `configure' script to prepare to build Emacs for that
7 The `configure' script uses the configuration name to decide which
8 machine and operating system description files `src/config.h' should
9 include. The machine description files are all in `src/m', and have
10 names similar to, but not identical to, the machine names used in
11 configuration names. The operating system files are all in `src/s',
12 and are named similarly. See the `configure' script if you need to
13 know which configuration names use which machine and operating system
16 If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this
17 file, and then edit the `configure' script to tell it which
18 configuration name(s) should select your new machine description and
19 system description files.
22 Here are the configurations Emacs is intended to work with, with the
23 corresponding configuration names. You can postpend version numbers
24 to operating system names (i.e. sunos4.1) or architecture names (i.e.
25 hppa1.1). If you leave out the version number, the `configure' script
26 will configure Emacs for the latest version it knows about.
28 Acorn RISCiX (arm-acorn-riscix1.2)
30 Emacs 19.29 has changes that ought to support RISCiX 1.2.
32 Due to a bug in the RISCiX C compiler (3.4.5), emacs must
33 be built with gcc (versions 2.5.8 onwards).
35 In addition, you will need GNU sed and GNU make, as the RISCiX release
36 versions of these utilities cannot cope with building emacs-19!
38 GNU sed should be configured with:
40 env 'DEFS=-Dgetopt=gnu_getopt -Dopterr=gnu_opterr -Doptind=gnu_optind \
41 -Doptarg=gnu_optarg' ./configure
43 GNU make (3.72+) should be configured with:
45 env 'CFLAGS=-Dgetopt=gnu_getopt -Dopterr=gnu_opterr -Doptind=gnu_optind \
46 -Doptarg=gnu_optarg' ./configure
48 Emacs may be configured to use the X toolkit, by adding --with-x-toolkit
49 to the configure command. If you do this, you will need to edit the line
50 in src/Makefile which defines LIBW (about line 59) to read:
54 This ensures that the non-shared widget library is used.
56 It is unlikely that this version of emacs will work with RISCiX 1.1.
58 Alliant (fx80-alliant-bsd):
60 18.52 worked on system version 4. Previous Emacs versions were
61 known to work on previous system versions.
63 If you are using older versions of their operating system, you may
64 need to edit `src/config.h' to use `m/alliant1.h' (on version 1) or
65 `m/alliant.h' (on versions 2 and 3).
67 Alliant FX/2800 (i860-alliant-bsd)
69 Known to work with 19.26 and OS version 2.2, compiler version 1.3.
71 Alpha (DEC) running OSF/1 or GNU/Linux (alpha-dec-osf1, alpha-dec-linux-gnu)
73 For OSF/1 (aka Digital Unix) version 4.0, update 386,
74 it is reported that you need to run configure this way:
76 configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
78 DEC C compiler version 5.9 (DEC C V5.9-005 on Digital UNIX V4.0f)
79 is reported to produce bogus binaries of Emacs 21.2 when the
80 command-line switches "-O4 -arch ev6 -tune ev6" are used. Using
81 just -O4 produces a good executable.
83 For 4.0 revision 564, and 4.0A and 4.0B, Emacs 20 seems to work
84 with no special configuration options. However, if you use GCC as
85 your compiler, you will need version 2.8.1 or later, as older
86 versions fail to build with a message "Invalid dimension for the
89 Note that the X11 libraries on GNU/Linux systems for the Alpha are
90 said to have bugs that prevent Emacs from working with X (as of
91 November 1995). Recent releases work (July 2000).
93 Altos 3068 (m68k-altos-sysv)
95 18.52 was said to work, provided you don't compile unexec.c with -O.
97 Amdahl UTS (580-amdahl-sysv)
99 Small changes for 18.38 were merged in 18.39. It is mostly
100 working, but at last report a bug sometimes causes Emacs to
101 grab very large amounts of memory. No fix or explanation
102 has yet been reported. It may be possible to find this bug
103 if you find which Emacs command it happens within and then
104 run that command with a breakpoint set at malloc.
106 The 5.2u370 compiler is so brain damaged that it is not
107 even worth trying to use it. Success was obtained with the
108 uts native C compiler on uts version 5.2.5.
110 Apple PowerPC Macintosh running GNU/Linux
112 There are special considerations for a variety of this system which
113 is known as the ``Yellow Dog [GNU/]Linux'': Emacs may crash during
114 dumping. To solve this, edit the header file src/m/macppc.h in the
115 Emacs distribution, and remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives
116 which surround the following block near the end of the file:
118 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux ecept for Yellowdog,
119 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
120 know what's really going on here. */
121 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
123 #if defined __linux__
124 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
125 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
130 After that, reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. It should now build
133 Apollo running X Windows (m68k-apollo-bsd)
135 Apollo version now supports dumping. It has been tested on SR10.3 and
136 SR10.4. It certainly requires at least SR10.0, and maybe SR10.2. Be sure
137 to build in the BSD environment.
139 By default, everything is compiled with the switch "-W0,-opt,2". Don't try
140 to change this to full optimization (-O). The full optimizer (in Domain CC
141 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9) generates some bad code in several modules which causes
142 the emacs window, under X, to be refreshed with each keystroke.
144 The configuration stuff should work for the most part. However, some Domain
145 installations may have to edit src/Makefile manually after it is created.
146 There are too many versions of both cc and X to automate this easily.
148 In `lib-src/Makefile', emacsclient and emacsserver compile and work fine
149 under CC 6.9. They now probably work under other versions of the compiler,
152 The Apollo Domain CC compiler will issue quite a few warning messages,
153 mostly complaining about incompatible pointers. In general, these are
154 harmless and can be ignored. If you discover otherwise, please submit a bug
155 report identifying the problem in detail.
157 When you try to dump emacs, you may get the message ".rwdi section needs
158 relocation." This means you are linking with some code that has compressed
159 data sections. In some cases this comes from linking with X libraries. Try
160 using shared X libraries instead. With some versions of Domain/OS this is
161 as simple as removing the "-lX11" from the LIBX line in src/Makefile.
163 When running the configure script, use the configuration name
164 "m68k-apollo-bsd". You will also need to use the "-with-gcc=no" and
165 "-with-x" options. Depending upon your site configuration, you may have to
166 use other configure options, as well. Examine the INSTALL file for other
169 Check out the file 'lisp/x-apollo.el'. To use it, add
173 to your .emacs file. It provides useful default Apollo function key
176 AT&T 3b2, 3b5, 3b15, 3b20 (we32k-att-sysv)
178 Emacs will probably not work with certain kernel constants too small.
180 In param.h CDLIMIT should be at least (1L << 12) in order to allow
181 processes to write up to 2 Mbyte files. This parameter is configurable
182 by normal means in /etc/master.d/kernel; examine that file for the
183 symbol CDLIMIT or ULIMIT, and raise it by several powers of 2. Then
184 do normal kernel rebuild things via "cd /boot; mkboot -k KERNEL" and so
187 In seg.h NSEGP and STACKSEG should be at least 16 and 4 respectively
188 to allow processes with total size of up to 2Mbytes.
189 However, I'm told it is unlikely this would fail to be true.
191 The MAXMEM may also prevent Emacs from running. The file
192 3B-MAXMEM in this directory explains how to increase MAXMEM.
194 On some of these machines, you may need to define IN_SCCS_ID
195 in config.h to make Emacs work. Supposedly you can tell whether
196 this is necessary by checking something in /usr/include/sys/time.h;
197 we do not know precisely what.
199 AT&T 7300 or 3b1 (m68k-att-sysv)
201 18.52 worked. If you have strange troubles with dumping
202 Emacs, delete the last few lines from `src/m/7300.h' and recompile.
203 These lines are supposed to produce a sharable executable.
205 `src/m/7300.h' defines SHORTNAMES because operating system versions
206 older than 3.5 did not support long symbol names. Version 3.5 does
207 support them, so you can remove the #define SHORTNAMES in that
210 Bull DPX/2 models 2nn or 3nn (m68k-bull-sysv3)
212 Minor fixes merged into 19.19, which should work with CC or GCC.
214 You should compile with all the POSIX stuff: undef _SYSV and define
215 _POSIX_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE and _BULL_SOURCE.
217 On bos2.00.45 there is a bug that makes the F_SETOWN fcntl
218 call enters in an infinite loop. F_SETOWN_BUG has been defined to avoid
221 Bull DPX/20 (rs6000-bull-bosx)
225 Bull sps7 (m68k-bull-sysv2)
227 Changes partially merged in version 19, but some fixes are probably required.
233 Celerity (celerity-celerity-bsd4.2)
235 Version 18.49 worked. This configuration name is a hack, because we
236 don't know the processor used by Celerities. If someone
237 who uses a Celerity could get in touch with us, we can teach
238 config.sub a better name for the configuration.
240 Clipper (clipper-???)
242 Version 19 has support for some brand of clipper system. If you
243 have successfully built Emacs 19 on some sort of clipper system, let
244 us know so we can flesh out this entry.
246 Note that the Orion 105 is also a clipper, but some system-related
247 parameters are different.
249 Convex (c1-convex-bsd, c2-convex-bsd, c32-convex-bsd, c34-convex-bsd,
252 Support updated and residual bugs fixed in 19.26.
254 Cubix QBx/386 (i386-cubix-sysv)
256 Changes merged in 19.1. Systems before 2/A/0 may fail to compile etags.c
257 due to a compiler bug.
259 Cydra 5 (cydra-cydrome-sysv)
261 18.51 worked in one version of their operating system but stopped
262 working in a newer version. This has not been fixed.
264 Data General Aviion (m88k-dg-dgux)
266 19.23 works; however, the GCC provided with DGUX 5.4R3.00 fails to
267 compile src/emacs.c. GCC 2.5.8 does work.
268 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work; no word on which compiler.
269 System versions other than DGUX 5.4R3.00 have not been tested.
271 DGUX 5.4R3.10 works with 19.29 and 19.30.
273 DGUX R4.11 contains changes to the stdio internals and it doesn't work
274 with versions before 20.2 without patches. 20.2 works in interactive
275 mode but usually fails in batch mode. The problem is that using
276 stderr in the dumped emacs usually leads to a segmentation fault.
277 Only m88k has been tested.
279 DECstation (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf)
281 This machine is the older Mips-based DECstation.
282 Emacs should now work on the Alpha CPU.
284 19.25 works on Ultrix 4.2. The 19.26 pretest was reported to work
285 on Ultrix 4.2a and on 4.4.
287 One user reported 19.25 did not work at all with --with-x-toolkit
288 using X11R5 patch level 10, but worked ok with X11R5 pl26.
290 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix.
291 Note that this is a MIPS machine.
293 For Ultrix versions 4.1 or earlier, you may need to define
294 SYSTEM_MALLOC in `src/m/pmax.h', because XvmsAlloc.o in libX11.a seems
295 to insist on defining malloc itself.
297 For Ultrix versions prior to 4.0, you may need to delete
298 the definition of START_FILES from `src/m/pmax.h'.
300 Motorola Delta 147 (m68k-motorola-sysv)
302 The EMacs 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
304 Motorola Delta boxes running System V/68 release 3.
305 Tested on 147 board with SVR3V7, no X and gcc.
306 Tested on 167 board with SVR3V7, no X, cc, gnucc and gcc.
307 Reports say it works with X too.
309 The installation script chooses the compiler itself. gnucc is
312 Motorola Delta 187 (m88k-motorola-sysv,
313 m88k-motorola-sysvr4, or
314 m88k-motorola-m88kbcs)
316 The 19.26 pretest was reported to run on SVR3. However, if you
317 use --with-x-toolkit on svr3, you will have problems compiling some
318 files because time.h and sys/time.h get included twice.
319 One fix is to edit those files to protect against multiple inclusion.
321 As of version 19.13, Emacs was reported to run under SYSVr3 and SYSVr4.
323 Dual running System V (m68k-dual-sysv)
325 As of 17.46, this worked except for a few changes
328 Dual running Uniplus (m68k-dual-uniplus)
332 Elxsi 6400 (elxsi-elxsi-sysv)
334 Changes for 12.0 release are in 19.1.
335 Dumping should work now.
337 Encore machine (ns16k-encore-bsd)
339 This machine bizarrely uses 4.2BSD modified to use the COFF format
340 for object files. Works (as of 18.40). For the APC processor you
341 must enable two lines at the end of `src/s/umax.h', which are commented
342 out in the file as distributed.
344 WARNING: If you compile Emacs with the "-O" compiler switch, you
345 must also use the "-q enter_exits" switch so that all functions have
346 stack frames. Otherwise routines that call `alloca' all lose.
348 A kernel bug in some system versions causes input characters to be lost
351 Fujitsu DS/90 (sparc-fujitsu-sysv4)
353 Changes merged in 20.3.
355 GEC 63 (local-gec63-usg5.2)
357 Changes are partially merged in version 18, but certainly require
358 more work. Let us know if you get this working, and we'll give it a
359 real configuration name.
361 Gould Power Node (pn-gould-bsd4.2 or pn-gould-bsd4.3)
363 18.36 worked on versions 1.2 and 2.0 of the operating system.
365 On UTX/32 2.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.3.
367 On UTX/32 1.2 and UTX/32S 1.0, use pn-gould-bsd4.2 and note that
368 compiling `lib-src/sorted-doc' tickles a compiler bug: remove the -g
369 flag to cc in the makefile.
371 UTX/32 1.3 has a bug in the bcopy library routine. Fix it by
372 #undef BSTRING in `src/m/gould.h'.
374 Version 19 incorporates support for releases 2.1 and later of UTX/32.
375 A site running a pre-release of 2.1 should #define RELEASE2_1 in config.h.
377 Gould NP1 (np1-gould-bsd)
379 Version 19 supposedly works.
381 Harris Night Hawk (m68k-harris-cxux or m88k-harris-cxux)
383 This port was added in 19.23. The configuration actually tested was
384 a Night Hawk 4800 running CX/UX 7.0.
386 If you have GCC ported and want to build with it, you probably need to
387 change things (like compiler switches) defined in the s/cxux.h file.
389 If you have X11R6 installed in /usr/lib, configure will fail to find
390 it and may find X11R5 instead. To work around this problem, use
391 --x-libraries=/usr/lib when you run configure.
393 With CX/UX 7.0 and later releases, you need to build after setting the
394 SDE_TARGET environment variable to COFF (a port using ELF and shared
395 libraries has not yet been done).
397 Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
399 Patches have been merged in 19.31.
401 Honeywell XPS100 (xps100-honeywell-sysv)
403 Config file added in version 19.
405 Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 (m68k-hp-bsd or m68k-hp-hpux
408 These machines are 68000-series CPUs running HP/UX
409 (a derivative of sysV with some BSD features) or BSD 4.3 ported by Utah.
410 The operating system suffix determines which system Emacs is built for.
412 Series 200 HPUX runs Emacs only if it has the "HP/UX upgrade".
414 Version 19 works under BSD. The 19.26 pretest was reported
415 to work on HPUX 9. 19.31 works on HPUX 10.01, but there are
416 some problems on 10.10 which have not been resolved. Emacs 19.34
417 works on HPUX 10.20 provided you compile with GCC; with the HP C
418 compiler, subprocess commands do not work.
420 On HPUX 9, Emacs sometimes crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you
421 delete a frame. We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries
422 provided by HP. With the alternative X libraries in
423 /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem does not happen.
425 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
426 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
427 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
428 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
430 Note that HP has used two incompatible assembler syntaxes,
431 and has recently changed the format of C function frames.
432 `src/crt0.c' and `src/alloca.s' have been conditionalised for the new
433 assembler and new function-entry sequence. You may need to define
434 OLD_HP_ASSEMBLER if you are using an older hpux version. If you
435 have an official (bought from HP) series 300 machine you have
436 the new assembler. Kernels that are 5.+ or later have new
437 assembler. A Series 200 that has been upgraded to a 68010
438 processor and a 5.+ kernel has the new compiler.
440 Define C_SWITCH_MACHINE to be +X to make a version of Emacs that
441 runs on both 68010 and 68020 based HP/UX's.
443 Define HPUX_68010 if you are using the new assembler, for
444 a system that has a 68010 without a 68881. This is to say,
445 a s200 (upgraded) or s310.
447 Define the symbol HPUX_NET if you have the optional network features
448 that include the `netunam' system call. This is referred to as
449 Network Services (NS/9000) in HP literature.
451 HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
453 The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
454 which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
455 and support for it would be difficult to implement.
457 HP 9000 series 700 or 800 (Spectrum) (hppa1.0-hp-hpux or hppa1.1-hp-hpux
458 or ...hpux9shr, or ...-nextstep)
460 Use hppa1.1 for the 700 series and hppa1.0 for the 800
461 series machines. (Emacs may not actually care which one you use.)
463 Support for NextSTEP was added in 19.31.
465 Emacs 20 may work on HPUX 10. You need patch PHSS_6202 to install
466 the Xaw and Xmu libraries. On HPUX 10.20 you may need to compile with GCC;
467 when Emacs was compiled with HP's C compiler, HP92453-01 A.10.32.03,
468 the subprocess features failed to work.
470 19.26 is believed to work on HPUX 9 provided you compile with GCC.
471 As of version 19.16, Emacs was reported to build (using GCC) and run
472 on HP 9000/700 series machines running HP/UX versions 8.07 and 9.01.
473 The HP compiler is known to fail on some versions if you use +O3,
474 but it may work with lower optimization levels.
476 Use hppa1.1-hp-hpux9shr to use shared libraries on HPUX version 9.
477 You may need to create the X libraries libXaw.a and libXmu.a from
478 the MIT X distribute, and you may need to edit src/Makefile's
479 definition of LIBXT to look like this:
481 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu -lXt $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
483 Some people report trouble using the GNU memory allocator under
484 HP/UX version 9. The problems often manifest as lots of ^@'s in the
487 We are told that these problems go away if you obtain the latest
488 patches for the HP/UX C compiler. James J Dempsey
489 <jjd@spserv.bbn.com> says that this set of versions works for him:
491 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
493 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
494 HP-UX SLLIC/OPTIMIZER HP-UX.09.00.23 02/18/93
495 Ucode Code Generator - HP-UX.09.00.23.5 (patch) 2/18/93
497 For 700 series machines, the HP-UX patch needed is known as
498 PHSS_2653. (Perhaps for 800 series machines as well; we don't
499 know.) If you are on the Internet, you should be able to obtain
500 this patch by using telnet to access the machine
501 support.mayfield.hp.com and logging in as "hpslreg" and following
502 the instructions there. Or you may be able to use this
505 HP Patch Server: http://support.mayfield.hp.com/patches/html/patches.html
506 HP Support Line: http://support.mayfield.hp.com
508 Please do not ask FSF for further support on this. If you have any
509 trouble obtaining the patch, contact HP Software Support.
511 If your buffer fills up with nulls (^@) at some point, it could well
512 be that problem. That problem does not happen when people use GCC
513 to compile Emacs. On the other hand, the HP compiler version 9.34
514 was reported to work for the 19.26 pretest. 9.65 was also reported to work.
516 If you turn on the DSUSP character (delayed suspend),
517 Emacs 19.26 does not know how to turn it off on HPUX.
518 You need to turn it off manually.
520 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
521 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
522 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
523 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
525 High Level Hardware Orion (orion-highlevel-bsd)
527 This is the original microprogrammed hardware.
528 Machine description file ought to work.
530 High Level Hardware Orion 1/05 (clipper-highlevel-bsd)
532 Changes merged in 18.52. This is the one with the Clipper cpu.
533 Note that systems which lack NFS need LOAD_AVE_TYPE changed to `double'.
535 C compiler has a bug; it loops compiling eval.c.
536 Compile it by hand without optimization.
538 HITACHI SR2001/SR2201 series (hppa1.1-hitachi-hiuxwe2)
540 These machines are based on PA architecture running HI-UX/MPP
541 (based on OSF1. `MPP' stands for `Massively Parallel Processor').
543 Emacs 19.34 is believed to work; its pretest was tested
544 both on SR2001 (output of `uname -rv' is `00-01-BB 0') and
547 Emacs 20.7 was reported to build on a system whose `uname -rs'
548 output is `HI-UX/MPP 03-04'.
550 The machine description file is `src/m/sr2k.h' is based on
551 `src/m/hp800.h'. The system description file is `src/s/hiuxwe2.h'
552 based on `src/s/osf1.h'. Note that this system doesn't use COFF.
554 IBM PS/2 (i386-ibm-aix1.1 or i386-ibm-aix1.2)
556 Changes merged in version 19. You may need to copy
557 /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c to the Emacs src directory.
559 i386-ibm-aix1.1 may not work with certain new X window managers, and
562 IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
564 Emacs 19.26 is believed to work; its pretest was tested.
566 Compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5' might
567 fail because libXbsd isn't found. This is a compiler bug;
568 re-configure Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
570 On AIX 4.3.x and 4.4, compiling with /bin/c89 fails because it
571 treats certain warnings as errors. Use `cc' instead.
573 At last report, Emacs didn't run well on terminals. Informed
574 persons say that the tty VMIN and VTIME settings have been
575 corrupted; if you have a fix, please send it to us.
577 Compiling with -O using the IBM compiler has been known
578 to make Emacs work incorrectly. It's reported that on
579 AIX 3.2.5 with an IBM compiler earlier than 1.03.00.14,
580 cc -O fails for some files. You need to install any
581 PTF containing APAR #IX42810 to bring the compiler to
582 the 1.03.00.14 level to allow optimized compiles.
584 There are reports that IBM compiler versions earlier than 1.03.00.02
585 fail even without -O. However, another report said that compiler
586 version 1.02.01.00 did work, on AIX 3.2.4, with Emacs 19.31.
588 As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
590 If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
591 ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
592 as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
594 If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
595 with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
597 IBM RT/PC (romp-ibm-bsd or romp-ibm-aix)
599 Use romp-ibm-bsd for the 4.2-like system and romp-ibm-aix for AIX.
600 19.22 is reported to work under bsd. We don't know about AIX.
602 On BSD, if you have trouble, try compiling with a different compiler.
604 On AIX, the file /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c must be compiled into
605 hftctl.o, with this result left in the src directory (hftctl.c is
606 part of the standard AIX distribution).
608 window.c must not be compiled with -O on AIX.
610 IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
612 As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
615 Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
617 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
618 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
619 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
620 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
621 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
624 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
626 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
627 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
628 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
629 indicates the Umax operating system).
631 Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, i386-*-bsdi2,
632 i386-*-xenix, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
633 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
634 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
635 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2,
636 i386-*-sco3.2v4, i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
637 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
638 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
640 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
641 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
642 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
644 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
645 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
646 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
647 Use i386-*-esix for Esix; Emacs runs as of version 19.6.
648 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
649 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
650 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
651 Use i386-*-sco3.2v4 for SCO 3.2v4; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
653 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
654 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
655 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
657 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
659 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
662 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
664 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
665 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
666 Newer system versions have fixed it.
668 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
670 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
671 The reasons are not yet known.
673 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
674 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
675 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
676 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
677 configure to run another shell such as bash.
679 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
680 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
681 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
683 If you are using Xenix, see notes at end under Xenix.
684 If you are using Esix, see notes at end under Esix.
685 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
687 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
688 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
689 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
690 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
692 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
693 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
694 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
695 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
697 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
698 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
699 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
700 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
701 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
702 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
704 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
705 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
706 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
708 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
709 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
711 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
714 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
715 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
716 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
717 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
720 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
721 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
723 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
726 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
727 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
728 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
729 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
730 according to whether you have the file.
732 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
733 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
734 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
736 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
737 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
739 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
740 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
741 to config.h to solve this problem.
743 Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
745 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
746 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
747 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
749 Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
751 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
752 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
753 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
754 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
756 Building Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 on versions of Irix before 6.5.10,
757 especially when Emacs is built with GCC, was reported to have subtle
758 problems such as being unable to print to stdout under the -batch
759 command-line option. Building with the native compiler or upgrading
760 the OS to a newer version solves these problems. There's evidence
761 that these problems are actually related to the runtime libraries
762 (before IRIX 6.5.10, the IRIX runtimes were based on the MIPSpro 7.2
763 compilers), so installing patches for the runtime from
764 http://www.sgi.com/support/patch_intro.html could solve the problem
765 even without upgrading the OS. The dump process is the crucial
766 step that needs the upgraded runtime, so a workaround is to dump
767 Emacs on a machine with a newer OS, then copy the binary to the
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 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on IRIX 4.0.5 and 5.2.
778 19.23 was reported to work on IRIX 5.2, but you may need to install
779 the "compiler_dev.hdr.internal" subsystem in order to compile unexelfsgi.c.
780 19.22 was known to work on all Silicon Graphics machines running
781 IRIX 4.0.5 or IRIX 5.1.
783 Compiling with -O using IRIX compilers prior to 3.10.1 may not work.
784 Don't use -O or use GCC instead.
786 Most IRIX 3.3 systems do not have an ANSI C compiler, but a few do.
787 Compile Emacs 18 with the -cckr switch on these machines.
789 There is a bug in IRIX 3.3 that can sometimes leave ptys owned by root
790 with a permission of 622. This causes malfunctions in use of
791 subprocesses of Emacs. Irix versions 4.0 and later with GNU Emacs
792 versions 18.59 and later fix this bug.
794 Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
796 18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
797 with minor fixes that are included in 18.37. However, bizarre behavior
798 was reported for 18.36 on a Masscomp (model and version unknown but probably
799 a 68020 system). The report sounds like a compiler bug.
801 A compiler bug affecting statements like
802 unsigned char k; unsigned char *p;... x = p[k];
803 has been reported for "C version 1.2 under RTU 3.1". We do not wish
804 to take the time to install the numerous workarounds required to
805 compensate for this bug.
807 For RTU version 3.1, define FIRST_PTY_LETTER to be 'p' in `src/s/rtu.h'
808 (or #undef and redefine it in config.h) so that ptys will be used.
810 GNU Emacs is said to have no chance of compiling on RTU versions
813 Megatest (m68k-megatest-bsd)
815 Emacs 15 worked; do not have any reports about Emacs 16 or 17
816 but any new bugs are probably not difficult.
818 Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
820 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
821 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
823 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
824 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
825 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
826 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
829 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
830 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
832 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
833 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
835 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
836 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
837 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
839 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
840 line in etc/Makefile:
842 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
844 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
845 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
846 the system to give a proper signal.
848 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
849 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
850 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
851 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
853 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
854 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
855 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
857 National Semiconductor 32000 (ns32k-ns-genix)
859 This is for a complete machine from National Semiconductor,
860 running Genix. Changes merged in version 19.
862 NCR Tower 32 (m68k-ncr-sysv2 or m68k-ncr-sysv3)
864 If you are running System V release 2, use m68k-ncr-sysv2.
865 If you are running System V release 3, use m68k-ncr-sysv3.
867 These both worked as of 18.56. If you change `src/ymakefile' so that
868 CFLAGS includes C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH rather than C_DEBUG_SWITCH, check
869 out the comments in `src/m/tower32.h' (for System V release 2) or
870 `src/m/tower32v3.h' (for System V release 3) about this.
872 There is a report that compilation with -O did not work with 18.54
873 under System V release 2.
875 NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
877 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
878 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
879 to find the X libraries.
881 NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
883 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
884 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
886 NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
888 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
889 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
890 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
893 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
894 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
897 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
899 Nixdorf Targon 31 (m68k-nixdorf-sysv)
901 Machine description file for version 17 is included in 18
902 but whether it works is not known.
903 `src/unexec.c' bombs if compiled with -O.
904 Note that the "Targon 35" is really a Pyramid.
906 Nu (TI or LMI) (m68k-nu-sysv)
908 Version 18 is believed to work.
910 Paragon OSF/1 (i860-intel-osf1)
912 Changes merged in 19.29.
914 There is a bug in OSF/1 make which claims there is a syntax error
915 in the src/xmakefile. You can successfully build emacs with:
919 Plexus (m68k-plexus-sysv)
923 Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
925 See under DECstation, above.
927 Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
929 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
931 Pyramid (pyramid-pyramid-bsd)
933 The 19.26 pretest was observed to work on OSx 5.0, but it is necessary
934 to edit gmalloc.c. You must add #include <sys/types.h> at the top,
935 and delete the #define for size_t.
937 You need to build Emacs in the Berkeley universe with
938 the `ucb' command, as in `ucb make' or `ucb build-install'.
940 In OSx 4.0, it seems necessary to add the following two lines
941 to `src/m/pyramid.h':
942 #define _longjmp longjmp
943 #define _setjmp setjmp
945 In Pyramid system 2.5 there has been a compiler bug making
946 Emacs crash just after screen-splitting with Qnil containing 0.
947 A compiler that fixes this is Pyramid customer number 8494,
948 internal number 1923.
950 Some versions of the pyramid compiler get fatal
951 errors when the -gx compiler switch is used; if this
952 happens to you, change `src/m/pyramid.h' to define
953 C_DEBUG_SWITCH with an empty definition.
955 Some old system versions may require you to define PYRAMID_OLD
956 in when alloca.s is preprocessed, in order to define _longjmp and _setjmp.
958 Sequent Balance (ns32k-sequent-bsd4.2 or ns32k-sequent-bsd4.3)
960 Emacs 18.51 worked on system version 3.0. 18.52 is said to work.
961 Delete some lines at the end of `src/m/sequent.h' for earlier system
964 Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
966 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
968 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
969 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
970 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
972 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
973 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
975 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
976 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
977 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
978 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
979 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
980 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
981 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
983 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
984 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
986 Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
988 Changes merged in 19.29. This configuration should also work for
989 Pyramid MIS Server running DC-OSX 1.x. The version configured with
990 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
991 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
992 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
993 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
995 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
996 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
998 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
999 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
1000 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
1001 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
1003 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
1004 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
1006 SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
1008 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
1010 SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
1012 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
1014 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
1015 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
1016 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
1017 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
1018 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
1019 in data.c if you wish.
1021 Stardent i860 (i860-stardent-sysv4.0)
1023 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1025 Stardent 1500 or 3000
1029 Stride (m68k-stride-sysv)
1031 Works (most recent news for 18.30) on their release 2.0.
1032 For release 2.2, see the end of `src/m/stride.h'.
1033 It may be possible to run on their V.1 system but changes
1034 in the s- file would be needed.
1036 Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
1037 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3noshr, sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
1038 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
1040 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
1041 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
1042 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
1043 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
1044 compilation): env CC="cc -xarch=v9" ./configure
1046 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
1049 Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
1050 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
1051 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
1052 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
1053 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
1055 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
1056 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
1057 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
1058 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
1059 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
1060 and the default CFLAGS.
1062 Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 built with Sun's ProWorks PC3.0.1 compiler on
1063 Intel/Solaris 8 was reported to abort and dump core during startup.
1064 Using GCC or a newer SUN compiler (Sun WokShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
1065 2001/05/15) solves the problem.
1067 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
1068 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
1069 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
1071 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
1072 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
1074 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
1075 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
1077 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
1078 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
1079 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
1081 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
1082 bad code for some part of Emacs.
1084 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
1085 provided you completely replace your C shared library
1086 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
1087 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
1088 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
1089 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
1091 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
1092 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
1093 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
1095 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
1096 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
1097 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
1099 It's important to include the SunOS version number in the
1100 configuration name. For example, for SunOS release 4.0 on a Sun 3,
1101 use `m68k-sun-sunos4.0'; for SunOS release 4.1 on a Sparc, use
1102 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1'. For SunOS release 4.1.3 on a Sparc, use
1103 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3'. Note that shared libraries are now
1104 used by default on SunOS 4.1.
1106 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
1107 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
1108 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
1109 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
1111 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
1112 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
1113 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
1114 #define ForceNormalLib YES
1115 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
1116 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
1118 Use `m68k' for the 68000-based Sun boxes, `sparc' for Sparcstations,
1119 and `i386' for Sun Roadrunners. i386 calls for Sunos4.0.
1121 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
1122 when linking temacs, such as
1123 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
1124 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
1125 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
1126 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
1128 On SunOS 4.1.1, do not use /usr/5bin/cc. You can use gcc or/usr/bin/cc.
1129 Make sure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.
1131 Some people report crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined.
1132 Others have reported that Emacs works if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined, and not
1133 if it is undefined. So far we do not know why results vary in this way.
1134 The sources are set up so that SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined; if that crashes,
1135 or if you want the benefit of the relocating memory allocator, you can
1136 try enabling the #undef SYSTEM_MALLOC in src/s/sunos4-1-3.h.
1138 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
1139 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
1140 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
1141 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1143 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
1144 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
1145 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
1146 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
1147 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
1148 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
1149 rather than an Emacs bug.
1151 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
1152 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
1153 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
1156 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
1157 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
1158 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
1159 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
1160 software in the nonshared standard library.
1162 If you want to use SunWindows, define HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS
1163 in config.h to enable a special interface called `emacstool'.
1164 The definition must *precede* the #include "machine.h".
1165 System version 3.2 is required for this facility to work.
1167 We recommend that you instead use the X window system, which
1168 has technical advantages, is an industry standard, and is also
1169 free software. The FSF does not support the SunWindows code;
1170 we installed it only on the understanding we would not let it
1171 divert our efforts from what we think is important.
1173 If you are compiling for X windows, and the X window library was
1174 compiled to use the 68881, then you must edit config.h according
1175 the comments at the end of `src/m/sun3.h'.
1177 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
1178 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
1179 original text section and the original data section
1180 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
1183 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
1184 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
1186 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
1187 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
1188 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
1189 are really relevant.
1191 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
1192 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
1193 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
1194 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
1195 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
1196 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
1198 Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
1200 Changes merged in 19.1.
1202 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
1203 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
1205 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
1207 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
1209 Tahoe (tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.2 or tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.3)
1211 18.52 was known to work on some Tahoes, but a compiler bug intervenes
1212 on others. Some Emacs versions have worked in Unisys 1r4
1213 (not in 1r3) and CCI I.21.
1215 If you have trouble compiling `lib-src/loadst.c', turn off the definition
1216 of DKSTAT_HEADER_FILE in `src/m/tahoe.h'.
1218 Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
1220 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
1221 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
1223 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
1225 Tektronix XD88 (m88k-tektronix-sysv3*)
1227 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
1228 Minor changes merged in 19.19.
1230 Tektronix 16000 box (6130?) (ns16k-tektronix-bsd)
1234 Tektronix 4300 (m68k-tektronix-bsd)
1236 Emacs 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1238 Titan P2 or P3 (titan-titan-sysv)
1240 Changes probably merged in version 19.
1242 Ustation E30 (SS5E) (m68k-unisys-unipl)
1244 Changes merged in 18.52; don't know whether they work.
1246 Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
1247 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
1248 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
1253 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
1255 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
1257 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
1259 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1260 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1261 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1262 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1264 Whitechapel MG1 (ns16k-whitechapel-?)
1266 May work. Supposedly no changes were needed except in `src/m/mg1.h'
1267 file. I do not know what Unix version runs on them.
1269 Wicat (m68k-wicat-sysv)
1271 Changes merged as of 18.6; whether they work is unknown.
1272 See comments in `src/m/wicat.h' for things you should change
1273 depending on the system and compiler version you have.
1275 Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
1277 Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
1281 Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
1283 Works on several machines.
1285 Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
1287 Works, on Vaxes at least.
1291 The following was written for Emacs 18.59 and has been
1292 slightly adapted for Emacs 19. It may need more change to be correct.
1294 Use s/usg5-4.h for Esix System V 4.0.[34] systems if you also have
1295 XFree86. If you insist on using the Esix X Window libraries, good
1296 luck. s/esix5r4.h provides a starting point, but doesn't seem to
1297 work consistently. The basic problems involve the need to load
1298 -lX11 *last* in the link command, and even then some things break.
1299 You get best results by installing XFree86 and forgetting about the
1300 Esix stuff unless you want to run IXI xdt3, which really only needs
1301 the Esix X11 shared libraries.
1303 To compile with XFree86, make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
1304 contains /usr/X386/lib. Be careful if you also have the Esix X
1305 Window libraries that /usr/X386/lib appears *first* in the
1306 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then define C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM -I/usr/X386/include.
1308 Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
1310 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
1311 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
1312 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
1314 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
1315 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
1316 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
1317 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
1318 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
1319 redistributable software from some other source.
1321 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
1322 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
1323 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
1324 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
1325 directory for more explanation.
1329 See under "Intel 386".
1333 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
1334 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
1335 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
1338 If you have TCP but not X, you need to edit src/s/sco4.h
1339 to define HAVE_SOCKETS.
1341 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
1342 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
1343 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
1344 sendmail if it exists.
1346 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
1349 System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
1351 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
1352 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
1353 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
1355 System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
1357 Works on various machines.
1358 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
1359 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
1361 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
1362 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
1364 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
1365 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
1366 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
1367 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
1369 System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
1371 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
1372 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
1373 is used to enable the other interface.
1375 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
1377 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
1378 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
1379 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
1380 machines running 5.2.2.
1382 System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
1384 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
1385 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
1387 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
1388 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
1390 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
1391 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
1392 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
1394 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
1395 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
1396 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
1397 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
1398 installing Xfree86 to fix this.
1400 System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
1402 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
1403 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
1404 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
1405 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
1406 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
1407 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
1408 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
1410 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
1411 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
1413 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
1414 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
1415 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
1417 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
1418 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
1419 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
1420 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
1421 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
1422 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
1423 X11 library is new enough.
1425 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
1426 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
1427 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
1428 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
1431 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
1432 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
1433 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
1434 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
1438 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
1439 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
1441 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
1442 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
1443 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
1445 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
1447 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
1448 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
1451 Then I ran the following:
1453 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
1455 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
1457 Uniplus 5.2 (unipl5.2)
1459 Works, on Dual machines at least.
1463 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1464 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1465 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1466 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1468 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
1469 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
1470 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
1472 Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
1474 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
1479 Should work in 18.50, but you will need to edit the files
1480 `lib-src/Makefile' and `src/ymakefile'
1481 (see the comments that mention "Xenix" for what to change.)
1482 Compiling Emacs with -O is said not to work.
1484 If you want Emacs to work with Smail (installed as /usr/bin/smail)
1485 then add the line #define SMAIL to config.h.
1487 The file etc/XENIX suggests some useful things to do to Xenix
1488 to make the Emacs meta key work.