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1 /* Template for system description header files.
2 This file describes the parameters that system description files
3 should define or not.
5 Copyright (C) 1985-1986, 1992, 1999, 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
7 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
9 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
10 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
12 (at your option) any later version.
14 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17 GNU General Public License for more details.
19 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
23 /* Define symbols to identify the version of Unix this is.
24 Define all the symbols that apply correctly. */
26 /* #define USG5 */
27 /* #define USG */
28 /* #define HPUX */
29 /* #define BSD4_2 */
30 /* #define BSD4_3 */
31 /* #define BSD_SYSTEM */
33 /* SYSTEM_TYPE should indicate the kind of system you are using.
34 It sets the Lisp variable system-type. */
36 #define SYSTEM_TYPE "berkeley-unix"
38 /* Emacs can read input using SIGIO and buffering characters itself,
39 or using CBREAK mode and making C-g cause SIGINT.
40 The choice is controlled by the variable interrupt_input.
42 Define INTERRUPT_INPUT to make interrupt_input = 1 the default (use SIGIO)
44 Emacs uses the presence or absence of the SIGIO and BROKEN_SIGIO macros
45 to indicate whether or not signal-driven I/O is possible. It uses
46 INTERRUPT_INPUT to decide whether to use it by default.
48 SIGIO can be used only on systems that implement it (4.2 and 4.3).
49 CBREAK mode has two disadvantages
50 1) At least in 4.2, it is impossible to handle the Meta key properly.
51 I hear that in system V this problem does not exist.
52 2) Control-G causes output to be discarded.
53 I do not know whether this can be fixed in system V.
55 Another method of doing input is planned but not implemented.
56 It would have Emacs fork off a separate process
57 to read the input and send it to the true Emacs process
58 through a pipe. */
59 #define INTERRUPT_INPUT
61 /* Letter to use in finding device name of first pty,
62 if system supports pty's. 'a' means it is /dev/ptya0. */
63 #define FIRST_PTY_LETTER 'a'
65 /* Define HAVE_PTYS if the system supports pty devices. */
66 #define HAVE_PTYS
68 /* subprocesses should be undefined if you do NOT want to
69 have code for asynchronous subprocesses
70 (as used in M-x compile and M-x shell).
71 Currently only MSDOS does not support this. */
73 /* #undef subprocesses */
75 /* Define CLASH_DETECTION if you want lock files to be written
76 so that Emacs can tell instantly when you try to modify
77 a file that someone else has modified in his Emacs. */
78 #define CLASH_DETECTION
80 /* If the character used to separate elements of the executable path
81 is not ':', #define this to be the appropriate character constant. */
82 /* #define SEPCHAR ':' */
84 /* ============================================================ */
86 /* Here, add any special hacks needed to make Emacs work on this
87 system. For example, you might define certain system call names
88 that don't exist on your system, or that do different things on
89 your system and must be used only through an encapsulation (which
90 you should place, by convention, in sysdep.c). */
92 /* If the system's imake configuration file defines `NeedWidePrototypes'
93 as `NO', we must define NARROWPROTO manually. Such a define is
94 generated in the Makefile generated by `xmkmf'. If we don't
95 define NARROWPROTO, we will see the wrong function prototypes
96 for X functions taking float or double parameters. */
98 /* #define NARROWPROTO 1 */
100 /* ============================================================ */
102 /* After adding support for a new system, modify the large case
103 statement in configure.in to recognize reasonable
104 configuration names, and add a description of the system to
105 `etc/MACHINES'.
107 Check for any tests of $opsys in configure.in, and add an entry
108 for the new system if needed.
110 If you've just fixed a problem in an existing configuration file,
111 you should also check `etc/MACHINES' to make sure its descriptions
112 of known problems in that configuration should be updated. */