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 At last report, Emacs didn't run well on terminals. Informed
571 persons say that the tty VMIN and VTIME settings have been
572 corrupted; if you have a fix, please send it to us.
574 Compiling with -O using the IBM compiler has been known
575 to make Emacs work incorrectly. It's reported that on
576 AIX 3.2.5 with an IBM compiler earlier than 1.03.00.14,
577 cc -O fails for some files. You need to install any
578 PTF containing APAR #IX42810 to bring the compiler to
579 the 1.03.00.14 level to allow optimized compiles.
581 There are reports that IBM compiler versions earlier than 1.03.00.02
582 fail even without -O. However, another report said that compiler
583 version 1.02.01.00 did work, on AIX 3.2.4, with Emacs 19.31.
585 As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
587 If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
588 ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
589 as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
591 If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
592 with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
594 IBM RT/PC (romp-ibm-bsd or romp-ibm-aix)
596 Use romp-ibm-bsd for the 4.2-like system and romp-ibm-aix for AIX.
597 19.22 is reported to work under bsd. We don't know about AIX.
599 On BSD, if you have trouble, try compiling with a different compiler.
601 On AIX, the file /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c must be compiled into
602 hftctl.o, with this result left in the src directory (hftctl.c is
603 part of the standard AIX distribution).
605 window.c must not be compiled with -O on AIX.
607 Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
609 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
610 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
611 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
612 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
613 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
616 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
618 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
619 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
620 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
621 indicates the Umax operating system).
623 Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, i386-*-bsdi2,
624 i386-*-xenix, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
625 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
626 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
627 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2,
628 i386-*-sco3.2v4, i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
629 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
630 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
632 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
633 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
634 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
636 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
637 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
638 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
639 Use i386-*-esix for Esix; Emacs runs as of version 19.6.
640 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
641 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
642 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
643 Use i386-*-sco3.2v4 for SCO 3.2v4; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
645 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
646 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
647 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
649 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
651 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
654 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
656 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
657 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
658 Newer system versions have fixed it.
660 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
662 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
663 The reasons are not yet known.
665 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
666 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
667 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
668 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
669 configure to run another shell such as bash.
671 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
672 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
673 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
675 If you are using Xenix, see notes at end under Xenix.
676 If you are using Esix, see notes at end under Esix.
677 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
679 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
680 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
681 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
682 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
684 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
685 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
686 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
687 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
689 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
690 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
691 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
692 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
693 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
694 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
696 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
697 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
698 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
700 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
701 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
703 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
706 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
707 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
708 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
709 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
712 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
713 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
715 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
718 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
719 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
720 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
721 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
722 according to whether you have the file.
724 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
725 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
726 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
728 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
729 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
731 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
732 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
733 to config.h to solve this problem.
735 Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
737 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
738 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
739 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
741 Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
743 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
744 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
745 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
746 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
748 If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
749 for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
750 problem should go away. It is possible that this problem results
751 from upgrading the operating system without reinstalling GCC; so you
752 could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
753 whether that fixes the problem.
755 Building Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 on versions of Irix before 6.5.10,
756 especially when Emacs is built with GCC, was reported to have subtle
757 problems such as being unable to print to stdout under the -batch
758 command-line option. Building with the native compiler or upgrading
759 the OS to a newer version solves these problems. There's evidence
760 that these problems are actually related to the runtime libraries
761 (before IRIX 6.5.10, the IRIX runtimes were based on the MIPSpro 7.2
762 compilers), so installing patches for the runtime from
763 http://www.sgi.com/support/patch_intro.html could solve the problem
764 even without upgrading the OS. The dump process is the crucial
765 step that needs the upgraded runtime, so a workaround is to dump
766 Emacs on a machine with a newer OS, then copy the binary to the
769 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on IRIX 4.0.5 and 5.2.
770 19.23 was reported to work on IRIX 5.2, but you may need to install
771 the "compiler_dev.hdr.internal" subsystem in order to compile unexelfsgi.c.
772 19.22 was known to work on all Silicon Graphics machines running
773 IRIX 4.0.5 or IRIX 5.1.
775 Compiling with -O using IRIX compilers prior to 3.10.1 may not work.
776 Don't use -O or use GCC instead.
778 Most IRIX 3.3 systems do not have an ANSI C compiler, but a few do.
779 Compile Emacs 18 with the -cckr switch on these machines.
781 There is a bug in IRIX 3.3 that can sometimes leave ptys owned by root
782 with a permission of 622. This causes malfunctions in use of
783 subprocesses of Emacs. Irix versions 4.0 and later with GNU Emacs
784 versions 18.59 and later fix this bug.
786 Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
788 18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
789 with minor fixes that are included in 18.37. However, bizarre behavior
790 was reported for 18.36 on a Masscomp (model and version unknown but probably
791 a 68020 system). The report sounds like a compiler bug.
793 A compiler bug affecting statements like
794 unsigned char k; unsigned char *p;... x = p[k];
795 has been reported for "C version 1.2 under RTU 3.1". We do not wish
796 to take the time to install the numerous workarounds required to
797 compensate for this bug.
799 For RTU version 3.1, define FIRST_PTY_LETTER to be 'p' in `src/s/rtu.h'
800 (or #undef and redefine it in config.h) so that ptys will be used.
802 GNU Emacs is said to have no chance of compiling on RTU versions
805 Megatest (m68k-megatest-bsd)
807 Emacs 15 worked; do not have any reports about Emacs 16 or 17
808 but any new bugs are probably not difficult.
810 Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
812 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
813 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
815 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
816 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
817 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
818 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
821 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
822 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
824 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
825 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
827 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
828 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
829 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
831 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
832 line in etc/Makefile:
834 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
836 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
837 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
838 the system to give a proper signal.
840 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
841 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
842 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
843 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
845 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
846 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
847 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
849 National Semiconductor 32000 (ns32k-ns-genix)
851 This is for a complete machine from National Semiconductor,
852 running Genix. Changes merged in version 19.
854 NCR Tower 32 (m68k-ncr-sysv2 or m68k-ncr-sysv3)
856 If you are running System V release 2, use m68k-ncr-sysv2.
857 If you are running System V release 3, use m68k-ncr-sysv3.
859 These both worked as of 18.56. If you change `src/ymakefile' so that
860 CFLAGS includes C_OPTIMIZE_SWITCH rather than C_DEBUG_SWITCH, check
861 out the comments in `src/m/tower32.h' (for System V release 2) or
862 `src/m/tower32v3.h' (for System V release 3) about this.
864 There is a report that compilation with -O did not work with 18.54
865 under System V release 2.
867 NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
869 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
870 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
871 to find the X libraries.
873 NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
875 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
876 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
878 NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
880 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
881 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
882 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
885 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
886 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
889 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
891 Nixdorf Targon 31 (m68k-nixdorf-sysv)
893 Machine description file for version 17 is included in 18
894 but whether it works is not known.
895 `src/unexec.c' bombs if compiled with -O.
896 Note that the "Targon 35" is really a Pyramid.
898 Nu (TI or LMI) (m68k-nu-sysv)
900 Version 18 is believed to work.
902 Paragon OSF/1 (i860-intel-osf1)
904 Changes merged in 19.29.
906 There is a bug in OSF/1 make which claims there is a syntax error
907 in the src/xmakefile. You can successfully build emacs with:
911 Plexus (m68k-plexus-sysv)
915 Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
917 See under DECstation, above.
919 Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
921 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
923 Pyramid (pyramid-pyramid-bsd)
925 The 19.26 pretest was observed to work on OSx 5.0, but it is necessary
926 to edit gmalloc.c. You must add #include <sys/types.h> at the top,
927 and delete the #define for size_t.
929 You need to build Emacs in the Berkeley universe with
930 the `ucb' command, as in `ucb make' or `ucb build-install'.
932 In OSx 4.0, it seems necessary to add the following two lines
933 to `src/m/pyramid.h':
934 #define _longjmp longjmp
935 #define _setjmp setjmp
937 In Pyramid system 2.5 there has been a compiler bug making
938 Emacs crash just after screen-splitting with Qnil containing 0.
939 A compiler that fixes this is Pyramid customer number 8494,
940 internal number 1923.
942 Some versions of the pyramid compiler get fatal
943 errors when the -gx compiler switch is used; if this
944 happens to you, change `src/m/pyramid.h' to define
945 C_DEBUG_SWITCH with an empty definition.
947 Some old system versions may require you to define PYRAMID_OLD
948 in when alloca.s is preprocessed, in order to define _longjmp and _setjmp.
950 Sequent Balance (ns32k-sequent-bsd4.2 or ns32k-sequent-bsd4.3)
952 Emacs 18.51 worked on system version 3.0. 18.52 is said to work.
953 Delete some lines at the end of `src/m/sequent.h' for earlier system
956 Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
958 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
960 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
961 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
962 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
964 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
965 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
967 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
968 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
969 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
970 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
971 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
972 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
973 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
975 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
976 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
978 Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
980 Changes merged in 19.29. This configuration should also work for
981 Pyramid MIS Server running DC-OSX 1.x. The version configured with
982 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
983 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
984 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
985 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
987 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
988 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
990 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
991 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
992 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
993 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
995 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
996 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
998 SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
1000 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
1002 SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
1004 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
1006 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
1007 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
1008 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
1009 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
1010 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
1011 in data.c if you wish.
1013 Stardent i860 (i860-stardent-sysv4.0)
1015 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1017 Stardent 1500 or 3000
1021 Stride (m68k-stride-sysv)
1023 Works (most recent news for 18.30) on their release 2.0.
1024 For release 2.2, see the end of `src/m/stride.h'.
1025 It may be possible to run on their V.1 system but changes
1026 in the s- file would be needed.
1028 Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
1029 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3noshr, sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
1030 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
1032 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
1033 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
1034 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
1035 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
1036 compilation): env CC="cc -xarch=v9" ./configure
1038 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
1041 Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
1042 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
1043 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
1044 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
1045 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
1047 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
1048 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
1049 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
1050 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
1051 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
1052 and the default CFLAGS.
1054 Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 built with Sun's ProWorks PC3.0.1 compiler on
1055 Intel/Solaris 8 was reported to abort and dump core during startup.
1056 Using GCC or a newer SUN compiler (Sun WokShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
1057 2001/05/15) solves the problem.
1059 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
1060 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
1061 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
1063 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
1064 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
1066 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
1067 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
1069 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
1070 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
1071 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
1073 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
1074 bad code for some part of Emacs.
1076 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
1077 provided you completely replace your C shared library
1078 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
1079 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
1080 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
1081 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
1083 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
1084 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
1085 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
1087 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
1088 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
1089 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
1091 It's important to include the SunOS version number in the
1092 configuration name. For example, for SunOS release 4.0 on a Sun 3,
1093 use `m68k-sun-sunos4.0'; for SunOS release 4.1 on a Sparc, use
1094 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1'. For SunOS release 4.1.3 on a Sparc, use
1095 `sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3'. Note that shared libraries are now
1096 used by default on SunOS 4.1.
1098 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
1099 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
1100 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
1101 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
1103 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
1104 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
1105 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
1106 #define ForceNormalLib YES
1107 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
1108 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
1110 Use `m68k' for the 68000-based Sun boxes, `sparc' for Sparcstations,
1111 and `i386' for Sun Roadrunners. i386 calls for Sunos4.0.
1113 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
1114 when linking temacs, such as
1115 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
1116 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
1117 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
1118 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
1120 On SunOS 4.1.1, do not use /usr/5bin/cc. You can use gcc or/usr/bin/cc.
1121 Make sure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined.
1123 Some people report crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined.
1124 Others have reported that Emacs works if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined, and not
1125 if it is undefined. So far we do not know why results vary in this way.
1126 The sources are set up so that SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined; if that crashes,
1127 or if you want the benefit of the relocating memory allocator, you can
1128 try enabling the #undef SYSTEM_MALLOC in src/s/sunos4-1-3.h.
1130 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
1131 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
1132 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
1133 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1135 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
1136 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
1137 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
1138 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
1139 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
1140 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
1141 rather than an Emacs bug.
1143 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
1144 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
1145 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
1148 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
1149 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
1150 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
1151 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
1152 software in the nonshared standard library.
1154 If you want to use SunWindows, define HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS
1155 in config.h to enable a special interface called `emacstool'.
1156 The definition must *precede* the #include "machine.h".
1157 System version 3.2 is required for this facility to work.
1159 We recommend that you instead use the X window system, which
1160 has technical advantages, is an industry standard, and is also
1161 free software. The FSF does not support the SunWindows code;
1162 we installed it only on the understanding we would not let it
1163 divert our efforts from what we think is important.
1165 If you are compiling for X windows, and the X window library was
1166 compiled to use the 68881, then you must edit config.h according
1167 the comments at the end of `src/m/sun3.h'.
1169 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
1170 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
1171 original text section and the original data section
1172 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
1175 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
1176 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
1178 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
1179 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
1180 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
1181 are really relevant.
1183 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
1184 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
1185 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
1186 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
1187 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
1188 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
1190 Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
1192 Changes merged in 19.1.
1194 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
1195 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
1197 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
1199 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
1201 Tahoe (tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.2 or tahoe-tahoe-bsd4.3)
1203 18.52 was known to work on some Tahoes, but a compiler bug intervenes
1204 on others. Some Emacs versions have worked in Unisys 1r4
1205 (not in 1r3) and CCI I.21.
1207 If you have trouble compiling `lib-src/loadst.c', turn off the definition
1208 of DKSTAT_HEADER_FILE in `src/m/tahoe.h'.
1210 Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
1212 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
1213 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
1215 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
1217 Tektronix XD88 (m88k-tektronix-sysv3*)
1219 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
1220 Minor changes merged in 19.19.
1222 Tektronix 16000 box (6130?) (ns16k-tektronix-bsd)
1226 Tektronix 4300 (m68k-tektronix-bsd)
1228 Emacs 19.26 pretest reported to work.
1230 Titan P2 or P3 (titan-titan-sysv)
1232 Changes probably merged in version 19.
1234 Ustation E30 (SS5E) (m68k-unisys-unipl)
1236 Changes merged in 18.52; don't know whether they work.
1238 Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
1239 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
1240 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
1245 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
1247 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
1249 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
1251 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1252 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1253 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1254 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1256 Whitechapel MG1 (ns16k-whitechapel-?)
1258 May work. Supposedly no changes were needed except in `src/m/mg1.h'
1259 file. I do not know what Unix version runs on them.
1261 Wicat (m68k-wicat-sysv)
1263 Changes merged as of 18.6; whether they work is unknown.
1264 See comments in `src/m/wicat.h' for things you should change
1265 depending on the system and compiler version you have.
1267 Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
1269 Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
1273 Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
1275 Works on several machines.
1277 Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
1279 Works, on Vaxes at least.
1283 The following was written for Emacs 18.59 and has been
1284 slightly adapted for Emacs 19. It may need more change to be correct.
1286 Use s/usg5-4.h for Esix System V 4.0.[34] systems if you also have
1287 XFree86. If you insist on using the Esix X Window libraries, good
1288 luck. s/esix5r4.h provides a starting point, but doesn't seem to
1289 work consistently. The basic problems involve the need to load
1290 -lX11 *last* in the link command, and even then some things break.
1291 You get best results by installing XFree86 and forgetting about the
1292 Esix stuff unless you want to run IXI xdt3, which really only needs
1293 the Esix X11 shared libraries.
1295 To compile with XFree86, make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
1296 contains /usr/X386/lib. Be careful if you also have the Esix X
1297 Window libraries that /usr/X386/lib appears *first* in the
1298 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then define C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM -I/usr/X386/include.
1300 Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
1302 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
1303 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
1304 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
1306 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
1307 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
1308 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
1309 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
1310 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
1311 redistributable software from some other source.
1313 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
1314 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
1315 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
1316 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
1317 directory for more explanation.
1321 See under "Intel 386".
1325 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
1326 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
1327 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
1330 If you have TCP but not X, you need to edit src/s/sco4.h
1331 to define HAVE_SOCKETS.
1333 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
1334 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
1335 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
1336 sendmail if it exists.
1338 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
1341 System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
1343 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
1344 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
1345 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
1347 System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
1349 Works on various machines.
1350 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
1351 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
1353 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
1354 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
1356 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
1357 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
1358 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
1359 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
1361 System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
1363 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
1364 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
1365 is used to enable the other interface.
1367 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
1369 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
1370 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
1371 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
1372 machines running 5.2.2.
1374 System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
1376 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
1377 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
1379 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
1380 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
1382 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
1383 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
1384 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
1386 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
1387 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
1388 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
1389 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
1390 installing Xfree86 to fix this.
1392 System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
1394 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
1395 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
1396 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
1397 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
1398 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
1399 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
1400 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
1402 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
1403 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
1405 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
1406 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
1407 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
1409 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
1410 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
1411 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
1412 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
1413 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
1414 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
1415 X11 library is new enough.
1417 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
1418 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
1419 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
1420 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
1423 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
1424 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
1425 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
1426 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
1430 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
1431 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
1433 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
1434 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
1435 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
1437 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
1439 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
1440 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
1443 Then I ran the following:
1445 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
1447 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
1449 Uniplus 5.2 (unipl5.2)
1451 Works, on Dual machines at least.
1455 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
1456 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
1457 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
1458 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
1460 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
1461 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
1462 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
1464 Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
1466 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
1471 Should work in 18.50, but you will need to edit the files
1472 `lib-src/Makefile' and `src/ymakefile'
1473 (see the comments that mention "Xenix" for what to change.)
1474 Compiling Emacs with -O is said not to work.
1476 If you want Emacs to work with Smail (installed as /usr/bin/smail)
1477 then add the line #define SMAIL to config.h.
1479 The file etc/XENIX suggests some useful things to do to Xenix
1480 to make the Emacs meta key work.