3 Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
4 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
7 This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
9 For each system and machine, we give the configuration name you should
10 pass to the `configure' script to prepare to build Emacs for that
13 The `configure' script uses the configuration name to decide which
14 machine and operating system description files `src/config.h' should
15 include. The machine description files are all in `src/m', and have
16 names similar to, but not identical to, the machine names used in
17 configuration names. The operating system files are all in `src/s',
18 and are named similarly. See the `configure' script if you need to
19 know which configuration names use which machine and operating system
22 If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this
23 file, and then edit the `configure' script to tell it which
24 configuration name(s) should select your new machine description and
25 system description files.
27 Some obsolete platforms are unsupported beginning with Emacs 23.1, see
28 the full list at the end of this file.
31 Here are the configurations Emacs is intended to work with, with the
32 corresponding configuration names. You can postpend version numbers
33 to operating system names (i.e. sunos4.1) or architecture names (i.e.
34 hppa1.1). If you leave out the version number, the `configure' script
35 will configure Emacs for the latest version it knows about.
37 Alpha (DEC) running GNU/Linux (alpha-dec-linux-gnu)
39 DEC C compiler version 5.9 (DEC C V5.9-005 on Digital UNIX V4.0f)
40 is reported to produce bogus binaries of Emacs 21.2 when the
41 command-line switches "-O4 -arch ev6 -tune ev6" are used. Using
42 just -O4 produces a good executable.
44 For 4.0 revision 564, and 4.0A and 4.0B, Emacs 20 seems to work
45 with no special configuration options. However, if you use GCC as
46 your compiler, you will need version 2.8.1 or later, as older
47 versions fail to build with a message "Invalid dimension for the
50 Note that the X11 libraries on GNU/Linux systems for the Alpha are
51 said to have bugs that prevent Emacs from working with X (as of
52 November 1995). Recent releases work (July 2000).
54 Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X
56 For installation on all versions of the Mac OS platform, see the file
59 Apple PowerPC Macintosh running GNU/Linux
61 There are special considerations for a variety of this system which
62 is known as the ``Yellow Dog [GNU/]Linux'': Emacs may crash during
63 dumping. To solve this, edit the header file src/m/macppc.h in the
64 Emacs distribution, and remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives
65 which surround the following block near the end of the file:
67 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog,
68 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
69 know what's really going on here. */
70 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
73 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
74 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
79 After that, reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. It should now build
82 Cubix QBx/386 (i386-cubix-sysv)
84 Changes merged in 19.1. Systems before 2/A/0 may fail to compile etags.c
85 due to a compiler bug.
87 DECstation (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf)
89 This machine is the older Mips-based DECstation.
90 Emacs should now work on the Alpha CPU.
92 19.25 works on Ultrix 4.2. The 19.26 pretest was reported to work
93 on Ultrix 4.2a and on 4.4.
95 One user reported 19.25 did not work at all with --with-x-toolkit
96 using X11R5 patch level 10, but worked ok with X11R5 pl26.
98 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix.
99 Note that this is a MIPS machine.
101 For Ultrix versions 4.1 or earlier, you may need to define
102 SYSTEM_MALLOC in `src/m/pmax.h', because XvmsAlloc.o in libX11.a seems
103 to insist on defining malloc itself.
105 For Ultrix versions prior to 4.0, you may need to delete
106 the definition of START_FILES from `src/m/pmax.h'.
108 Motorola Delta 147 (m68k-motorola-sysv)
110 The EMacs 19.26 pretest was reported to work.
112 Motorola Delta boxes running System V/68 release 3.
113 Tested on 147 board with SVR3V7, no X and gcc.
114 Tested on 167 board with SVR3V7, no X, cc, gnucc and gcc.
115 Reports say it works with X too.
117 The installation script chooses the compiler itself. gnucc is
120 Fujitsu DS/90 (sparc-fujitsu-sysv4)
122 Changes merged in 20.3.
124 GEC 63 (local-gec63-usg5.2)
126 Changes are partially merged in version 18, but certainly require
127 more work. Let us know if you get this working, and we'll give it a
128 real configuration name.
130 Harris Power PC (powerpc-harris-powerunix)
132 Patches have been merged in 19.31.
134 Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 or 300 (m68k-hp-bsd or m68k-hp-hpux
137 These machines are 68000-series CPUs running HP/UX
138 (a derivative of sysV with some BSD features) or BSD 4.3 ported by Utah.
139 The operating system suffix determines which system Emacs is built for.
141 Series 200 HPUX runs Emacs only if it has the "HP/UX upgrade".
143 Version 19 works under BSD. The 19.26 pretest was reported
144 to work on HPUX 9. 19.31 works on HPUX 10.01, but there are
145 some problems on 10.10 which have not been resolved. Emacs 19.34
146 works on HPUX 10.20 provided you compile with GCC; with the HP C
147 compiler, subprocess commands do not work.
149 On HPUX 9, Emacs sometimes crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you
150 delete a frame. We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries
151 provided by HP. With the alternative X libraries in
152 /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem does not happen.
154 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
155 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
156 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
157 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
159 Note that HP has used two incompatible assembler syntaxes,
160 and has recently changed the format of C function frames.
161 `src/crt0.c' and `src/alloca.s' have been conditionalised for the new
162 assembler and new function-entry sequence. You may need to define
163 OLD_HP_ASSEMBLER if you are using an older hpux version. If you
164 have an official (bought from HP) series 300 machine you have
165 the new assembler. Kernels that are 5.+ or later have new
166 assembler. A Series 200 that has been upgraded to a 68010
167 processor and a 5.+ kernel has the new compiler.
169 Define C_SWITCH_MACHINE to be +X to make a version of Emacs that
170 runs on both 68010 and 68020 based HP/UX's.
172 Define HPUX_68010 if you are using the new assembler, for
173 a system that has a 68010 without a 68881. This is to say,
174 a s200 (upgraded) or s310.
176 Define the symbol HPUX_NET if you have the optional network features
177 that include the `netunam' system call. This is referred to as
178 Network Services (NS/9000) in HP literature.
180 HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
182 The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
183 which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
184 and support for it would be difficult to implement.
186 HP 9000 series 700 or 800 (Spectrum) (hppa1.0-hp-hpux or hppa1.1-hp-hpux
187 or ...hpux9shr, or ...-nextstep)
189 Use hppa1.1 for the 700 series and hppa1.0 for the 800
190 series machines. (Emacs may not actually care which one you use.)
192 Support for NextSTEP was added in 19.31.
194 Emacs 20 may work on HPUX 10. You need patch PHSS_6202 to install
195 the Xaw and Xmu libraries. On HPUX 10.20 you may need to compile with GCC;
196 when Emacs was compiled with HP's C compiler, HP92453-01 A.10.32.03,
197 the subprocess features failed to work.
199 19.26 is believed to work on HPUX 9 provided you compile with GCC.
200 As of version 19.16, Emacs was reported to build (using GCC) and run
201 on HP 9000/700 series machines running HP/UX versions 8.07 and 9.01.
202 The HP compiler is known to fail on some versions if you use +O3,
203 but it may work with lower optimization levels.
205 Use hppa1.1-hp-hpux9shr to use shared libraries on HPUX version 9.
206 You may need to create the X libraries libXaw.a and libXmu.a from
207 the MIT X distribute, and you may need to edit src/Makefile's
208 definition of LIBXT to look like this:
210 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu -lXt $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
212 Some people report trouble using the GNU memory allocator under
213 HP/UX version 9. The problems often manifest as lots of ^@'s in the
216 We are told that these problems go away if you obtain the latest
217 patches for the HP/UX C compiler. James J Dempsey
218 <jjd@spserv.bbn.com> says that this set of versions works for him:
220 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
222 HP92453-01 A.09.28 HP C Compiler
223 HP-UX SLLIC/OPTIMIZER HP-UX.09.00.23 02/18/93
224 Ucode Code Generator - HP-UX.09.00.23.5 (patch) 2/18/93
226 For 700 series machines, the HP-UX patch needed is known as
227 PHSS_2653. (Perhaps for 800 series machines as well; we don't
228 know.) If you are on the Internet, you should be able to obtain
229 this patch by using telnet to access the machine
230 support.mayfield.hp.com and logging in as "hpslreg" and following
231 the instructions there. Or you may be able to use this
234 HP Patch Server: http://support.mayfield.hp.com/patches/html/patches.html
235 HP Support Line: http://support.mayfield.hp.com
237 Please do not ask FSF for further support on this. If you have any
238 trouble obtaining the patch, contact HP Software Support.
240 If your buffer fills up with nulls (^@) at some point, it could well
241 be that problem. That problem does not happen when people use GCC
242 to compile Emacs. On the other hand, the HP compiler version 9.34
243 was reported to work for the 19.26 pretest. 9.65 was also reported to work.
245 If you turn on the DSUSP character (delayed suspend),
246 Emacs 19.26 does not know how to turn it off on HPUX.
247 You need to turn it off manually.
249 If you are running HP/UX release 8.0 or later, you need the optional
250 "C/ANSI C" software in order to build Emacs (older releases of HP/UX
251 do not require any special software). If the file "/etc/filesets/C"
252 exists on your machine, you have this software, otherwise you do not.
254 IBM PS/2 (i386-ibm-aix1.1 or i386-ibm-aix1.2)
256 Changes merged in version 19. You may need to copy
257 /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c to the Emacs src directory.
259 i386-ibm-aix1.1 may not work with certain new X window managers, and
262 IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
264 Emacs 19.26 is believed to work; its pretest was tested.
266 Compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5' might
267 fail because libXbsd isn't found. This is a compiler bug;
268 re-configure Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
270 On AIX 4.3.x and 4.4, compiling with /bin/c89 fails because it
271 treats certain warnings as errors. Use `cc' instead.
273 At last report, Emacs didn't run well on terminals. Informed
274 persons say that the tty VMIN and VTIME settings have been
275 corrupted; if you have a fix, please send it to us.
277 Compiling with -O using the IBM compiler has been known
278 to make Emacs work incorrectly. It's reported that on
279 AIX 3.2.5 with an IBM compiler earlier than 1.03.00.14,
280 cc -O fails for some files. You need to install any
281 PTF containing APAR #IX42810 to bring the compiler to
282 the 1.03.00.14 level to allow optimized compiles.
284 There are reports that IBM compiler versions earlier than 1.03.00.02
285 fail even without -O. However, another report said that compiler
286 version 1.02.01.00 did work, on AIX 3.2.4, with Emacs 19.31.
288 As of 19.11, if you strip the Emacs executable, it ceases to work.
290 If you are using AIX 3.2.3, you may get a core dump when loading
291 ange-ftp. You may be able to fix the problem by defining LIBS_TERMCAP
292 as -ltermcap -lcurses. Please tell us if this fails to work.
294 If anyone can fix the above problems, or confirm that they don't happen
295 with certain versions of various programs, we would appreciate it.
297 IBM System/390 running GNU/Linux (s390-*-linux-gnu)
299 As of Emacs 21.2, a 31-bit only version is supported on this
302 Integrated Solutions `Optimum V' (m68k-isi-bsd4.2 or -bsd4.3)
304 18.52 said to work on some sort of ISI machine.
305 Version 18.45 worked (running on a Optimum V (VME bus, 68020)
306 BSD 4.2 (3.05e) system). 18.42 is reported to work on
307 a Qbus 68010 system. Has not been tried on `WorkStation' `Cluster
308 Compute Node' `Cluster WorkStation' or `Server Node' (Love the
311 Compilation with -O is rumored to break something.
313 On recent system versions, you may need to undefine the macro UMAX
314 in `lib-src/loadst.c' and `src/getpagesize.h'. They stupidly defined this
315 in a system header file, which confuses Emacs (which thinks that UMAX
316 indicates the Umax operating system).
318 Intel 386 (i386-*-bsdi2, i386-*-freebsd, i386-*-linux-gnu,
319 i386-*-sol2.4, i386-*-sysv3, i386-intsys-sysv,
320 i386-*-sysv4, i386-*-sysv4.2,
321 i386-*-sysv5.3, i386-*-bsd4.2, i386-*-cygwin,
322 i386-*-bsd386, i386-*-386bsd,
323 i386-*-msdos, i386-*-windowsnt.
324 i386... can be replaced with i486... or i586...)
326 In the above configurations, * means that the manufacturer's name
327 you specify does not matter, and you can use any name you like
328 (but it should not contain any dashes or stars).
330 When using the ISC configurations, be sure to specify the isc
331 version number - for example, if you're running ISC 3.0, use
332 i386-unknown-isc3.0 as your configuration name.
333 Use i386-*-linux-gnu for GNU/Linux systems; Emacs runs as of version 19.26.
334 Use i386-*-cygwin for Cygwin; Emacs builds as of version 22.1, in both X11
335 and non-X11 modes. (The Cygwin site has source and binaries for 21.2.)
336 Use i386-intsys-sysv for Integrated Solutions 386 machines.
337 It may also be correct for Microport systems.
339 On GNU/Linux systems, Emacs 19.23 was said to work properly with libc
340 version 4.5.21, but not with 4.5.19. If your system uses QMAGIC
341 for the executable format, you must edit config.h to define LINUX_QMAGIC.
343 On GNU/Linux, configure may fail to put these definitions in config.h:
345 #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
348 #define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
350 To work around the problem, add those definitions by hand.
351 It is possible that this problem happens only with X11R6.
352 Newer system versions have fixed it.
354 The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on SVR4.3 and on Freebsd.
356 19.29 is reported to crash when using Motif on Solaris 2.5.
357 The reasons are not yet known.
359 Use i386-*-bsdiN for BSDI BSD/OS version N; Emacs runs as of version 19.23.
360 In some system versions, `make' is broken; use GNU make instead.
361 Shell bugs in version 1.0 of BSD/OS cause configure
362 to do the wrong thing with --with-x-toolkit; the workaround is to edit
363 configure to run another shell such as bash.
365 For System V release 3, use i386-*-sysv3.
366 For System V release 4, use i386-*-sysv4.
367 For System V release 4.2, use i386-*-sysv4.2.
369 If you are using SCO Unix, see notes at end under SCO.
371 On 386bsd, NetBSD and FreeBSD, at one time, it was necessary to use
372 GNU make, not the system's make. Assuming it's installed as gmake,
373 do `gmake install MAKE=gmake'. However, more recently it is
374 reported that using the system Make on NetBSD 1.3.1 works ok.
376 If you are using System V release 4.2, you may find that `cc -E'
377 puts spurious spaces in `src/xmakefile'. If that happens,
378 specify CPP=/lib/cpp as an option when you run make.
379 There is no problem if you compile with GCC.
381 Note that use of Linux with GCC 2.4 and the DLL 4.4 libraries
382 requires the experimental "net 2" network patches (no relation to
383 Berkeley Net 2). There is a report that (some version of) Linux
384 requires including `/usr/src/linux/include/linux' in buffer.c
385 but no coherent explanation of why that might be so. If it is so,
386 in current versions of Linux, something else should probably be changed.
388 Some sysV.3 systems seem to have bugs in `opendir';
389 for them, alter `config.h' to define NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY
390 and undefine SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR.
392 If you use optimization on V.3, you may need the option -W2,'-y 0'
393 to prevent certain faulty optimization.
395 On 386/ix, to link with shared libraries, add #define USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES
398 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
399 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
400 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93;
401 Quick C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile
404 On ISC systems (2.02 and more recent), don't try to use the versions
405 of X that come with the system; use XFree86 instead.
407 There is no consistency in the handling of certain system header files
410 Some versions have sys/sioctl.h, and require it in sysdep.c.
411 But some versions do not have sys/sioctl.h.
412 For a given version of the system, this may depend on whether you have
413 X Windows or TCP/IP. Define or undefine NO_SIOCTL_H in config.h
414 according to whether you have the file.
416 Likewise, some versions have been known to need sys/ttold.h, sys/stream.h,
417 and sys/ptem.h included in sysdep.c. If your system has these files,
418 try defining NEED_PTEM_H in config.h if you have trouble without it.
420 You may find that adding -I/usr/X/include or -I/usr/netinclude or both
421 to CFLAGS avoids compilation errors on certain systems.
423 Some versions convince sysdep.c to try to use `struct tchars'
424 but define `struct tc' instead; add `#define tchars tc'
425 to config.h to solve this problem.
427 Iris 2500 and Iris 2500 Turbo (m68k-sgi-iris3.5 or m68k-sgi-iris3.6)
429 Version 18 was said to work; use m68k-sgi-iris3.5 for system version 2.5
430 and m68k-sgi-iris3.6 for system version 3.6.
431 Note that the 3030 is the same as the Iris 2500 Turbo.
433 Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
435 Emacs 21.3 is reported to work on IRIX 6.5.x.
437 You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
438 on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
439 flag or otherwise (see cc(1)). This may work on earlier Irix 6
440 systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
442 If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
443 for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
444 problem should go away. It is possible that this problem results
445 from upgrading the operating system without reinstalling GCC; so you
446 could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
447 whether that fixes the problem.
449 Mips (mips-mips-riscos, mips-mips-riscos4.0, or mips-mips-bsd)
451 The C compiler on Riscos 4.51 dumps core trying to optimize
452 parts of Emacs. Try without optimization or try GCC.
454 Meanwhile, the linker on that system returns success even if
455 there are undefined symbols; as a result, configure gets the
456 wrong answers to various questions. No work-around is known
457 except to edit src/config.h by hand to indicate which functions
460 Use mips-mips-riscos4.0 for RISCOS version 4.
461 Use mips-mips-bsd with the BSD world.
463 Note that the proper configuration names for DECstations are
464 mips-dec-ultrix and mips-dec-osf.
466 If you are compiling with GCC, then you must run fixincludes;
467 the alternative of using -traditional won't work because
468 the definition of SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR uses the keyword `signed'.
470 If the SYSV world is the default, then you probably need the following
471 line in etc/Makefile:
473 CFLAGS= -g -systype bsd43
475 Some operating systems on MIPS machines give SIGTRAP for division by
476 zero instead of the usual signals. The only real solution is to fix
477 the system to give a proper signal.
479 In the meantime, you can change init_data in data.c if you wish.
480 Change it to handle SIGTRAP as well as SIGFPE. But this will have a
481 great disadvantage: you will not be able to run Emacs under a
482 debugger. I think crashing on division by zero is a lesser problem.
484 dsg@mitre.org reported needing to use --x-libraries=/bsd43/usr/lib
485 on a riscos4bsd site. But it is not clear whether this is needed in
486 general or only because of quirks on a particular site.
488 NCR Intel system (i386-ncr-sysv4.2)
490 This system works in 19.31, but if you don't link it with GNU ld,
491 you may need to set LD_RUN_PATH at link time to specify where
492 to find the X libraries.
494 NEC EWS4800 (mips-nec-sysv4)
496 This system works in 20.4, but you should use the compiler
497 /usr/abiccs/bin/cc (MIPS ABI MODE).
499 NeXT (m68k-next-nextstep)
501 Emacs 19 has not been tested extensively yet, but it seems to work
502 in a NeXTStep 3.0 terminal window, and under the X server called
503 co-Xist. You may need to specify -traditional when src/Makefile
506 NeXT users might want to implement direct operation with NeXTStep,
507 but from the point of view of the GNU project, that is a
510 Thanks to Thorsten Ohl for working on the NeXT port of Emacs 19.
512 Pmax (DEC Mips) (mips-dec-ultrix or mips-dec-osf1)
514 See under DECstation, above.
516 Prime EXL (i386-prime-sysv)
518 Minor changes merged in 19.1.
520 Sequent Symmetry (i386-sequent-bsd, i386-sequent-ptx, i386-sequent-ptx4)
522 19.33 has changes to support ptx 4 (a modified SVR4).
524 Emacs 19 should work on Dynix (BSD). However, if you compile with
525 the Sequent compiler, you may find Emacs does not restore the
526 terminal settings on exit. If this happens, compile with GCC.
528 Emacs 19.27 contains patches that should support
529 DYNIX/ptx 1.4 and 2.1 with the native cc compiler.
531 GCC can't compile src/process.c due to a non-standard Sequent asm
532 keyword extension supported by cc and used for the network byte/word
533 swapping functions in the PTX /usr/include/netinet/in.h file. GCC
534 2.5.8 includes the file <sys/byteorder.h> which can be included into
535 netinet/in.h to perform these byte/word swapping functions in the
536 same manner. Patches have been submitted to the FSF against GCC
537 2.6.0 to fix this problem and allow Emacs to be built with GCC.
539 If your machine does not have TCP/IP installed, you will have to edit the
540 src/s/ptx.h file and comment out #define TCPIP_INSTALLED.
542 Siemens Nixdorf RM600 and RM400 (mips-siemens-sysv4)
544 Changes merged in 19.29. The version configured with
545 `--with-x' works without any modifications, but `--with-x-toolkit'
546 works only if the Athena library and the Toolkit library are linked
547 statically. For this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
548 and modify the lines with `-lXaw' and `-lXt' as follows:
550 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXaw.a
551 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
553 In addition, `--with-x-toolkit=motif' works only
554 if the Motif library and the Toolkit library are linked statically.
555 To do this, edit `src/Makefile' after the `configure' run
556 and modify the lines with `-lXm' and `-lXt' as follows:
558 LIBW= /usr/lib/libXm.a /usr/ccs/lib/libgen.a
559 LIBXT= $(LIBW) -lXmu /usr/lib/libXt.a $(LIBXTR6) -lXext
561 SONY News (m68k-sony-bsd4.2 or m68k-sony-bsd4.3)
563 18.52 worked. Use m68k-sony-bsd4.3 for system release 3.
565 SONY News 3000 series (RISC NEWS) (mips-sony-bsd)
567 The 19.26 pretest is reported to work.
569 Some versions of the operating system give SIGTRAP for division by zero
570 instead of the usual signals. This causes division by zero
571 to make Emacs crash. The system should be fixed to give the proper signal.
572 Changing Emacs is not a proper solution, because it would prevent
573 Emacs from working under any debugger. But you can change init_data
574 in data.c if you wish.
576 Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (sparc-sun-solaris2.*,
577 i386-sun-solaris2.*, sparc*-*-linux-gnu)
579 To build a 32-bit Emacs (i.e. if you are having any sort of problem
580 bootstrapping a 64-bit version), you can use the Sun Studio compiler
581 and configure Emacs with:
582 env CC="cc -xarch=v7" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on SPARC systems
583 env CC="cc -xarch=386" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on x86 systems
584 On Solaris 2.10, it is also possible to use /usr/sfw/bin/gcc to build
585 a 32-bit version of Emacs. Just make sure you point ./configure to
588 env CC='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -m32' ./configure
590 To build a 64-bit Emacs (with larger maximum buffer size and
591 including large file support) on a Solaris system which supports
592 64-bit executables, use the Sun compiler, configuring something like
593 this (see the cc documentation for information on 64-bit
596 env CC="cc -xarch=v9" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on SPARC systems
597 env CC="cc -xarch=amd64" CFLAGS='' ./configure # on x86 systems
599 As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
602 Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
603 implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
604 frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
605 (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
606 `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
608 On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
609 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
610 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
611 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
612 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
613 and the default CFLAGS.
615 Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 built with Sun's ProWorks PC3.0.1 compiler on
616 Intel/Solaris 8 was reported to abort and dump core during startup.
617 Using GCC or a newer SUN compiler (Sun WokShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
618 2001/05/15) solves the problem.
620 Emacs 20.5 and later work on SPARC GNU/Linux with the 32-bit ABI.
621 As of release 2.95, GCC doesn't work properly with the 64-bit ABI
622 (applicable on UltraSPARC), but that isn't the default mode.
624 Emacs 20.3 fails to build on Solaris 2.5 if you use GCC 2.7.2.3.
625 Installing GCC 2.8 fixes the problem.
627 19.32 works on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. On Solaris 2.5
628 you may need one of these patches to prevent Emacs from crashing
630 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
631 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
632 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
634 There are reports that using SunSoft cc with -xO4 -xdepend produces
635 bad code for some part of Emacs.
637 Emacs works ok Sunos 4.1.x
638 provided you completely replace your C shared library
639 using one of the SunOS 4.1.x jumbo replacement patches from Sun.
640 Here are the patch numbers for Sunos 4.1.3:
641 100890-10 SunOS 4.1.3: domestic libc jumbo patch
642 100891-10 SunOS 4.1.3: international libc jumbo patch
644 Some people report that Emacs crashes immediately on startup when
645 used with a non-X terminal, but we think this is due to compiling
646 with GCC and failing to use GCC's "fixed" system header files.
648 Some Sun versions of X windows use the clipboard, not the selections,
649 for transferring text between clients. The Cut, Paste and Copy items
650 in the menu bar Edit menu work with the clipboard.
652 A user reported irreproducible segmentation faults when using 19.29
653 on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 after compiling it with the Sun compiler.
654 The problem went away when GCC 2.7.0 was used instead. We do not know
655 whether anything in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
657 X11R6 is set up to make shared libraries only, on Sunos 4.
658 Therefore, in order to link Emacs, you need to create static X libraries.
659 To do this, rebuild X11 after setting
660 #define ForceNormalLib YES
661 #define SeparateSharedCompile YES
662 in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF).
664 If you compile with Sun's ANSI compiler acc, you need additional options
665 when linking temacs, such as
666 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
667 (those should be added just before the libraries) and you need to
668 add -lansi just before -lc. The precise file names depend on the
669 compiler version, so we cannot easily arrange to supply them.
671 On Solaris 2, you need to install patch 100947-02 to fix a system bug.
672 Presumably this patch comes from Sun. You must alter the definition of
673 LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM if your X11 libraries are not in /usr/openwin/lib.
674 You must make sure that /usr/ucblib is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
676 On Solaris 2.2, with a multiprocessor SparcCenter 1000, Emacs 19.17 is
677 reported to hang sometimes if it exits while it has one or more
678 subprocesses (e.g. the `wakeup' subprocess used by `display-time').
679 Emacs and its subprocesses become zombies, and in their zombie state
680 slow down their host and disable rlogin and telnet. This is most
681 likely due to a bug in Solaris 2.2's multiprocessor support,
682 rather than an Emacs bug.
684 On Solaris, do not use /usr/ucb/cc. Use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. Make
685 sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/SUNWspro/bin are in your PATH before
686 /usr/ucb. (Most free software packages have the same requirement on
687 Solaris.) With this compiler, use `/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E' as the
688 preprocessor. If this inserts extra whitespace into its output (see
689 the PROBLEMS file) then add the option `-Xs'.
691 If you have trouble using open-network-stream, get the distribution
692 of `bind' (the BSD name-server), build libresolv.a, and link Emacs
693 with -lresolv, by copying the #definition of LIBS_SYSTEM in
694 src/s/sunos4-1.h to src/config.h. This problem is due to obsolete
695 software in the nonshared standard library.
697 Note that Emacs on a Sun is not really as big as it looks.
698 As dumped, it includes around 200k of zeros between the
699 original text section and the original data section
700 (now remapped as part of the text). These are never
703 To build a single Emacs that will run on Sun 2 and Sun 3
704 HARDWARE, just build it on the Sun 2.
706 On Sunos 4.1.3, the word is that Emacs can loop infinitely
707 on startup with X due perhaps to a bug in Sunos. Installing all of
708 these Sun patches fixes the problem. We don't know which of them
711 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03
712 101080-01 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10
713 101134-01 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02
714 101070-01 101145-01 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05
715 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02
716 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
718 Tadpole 68K (m68k-tadpole-sysv)
720 Changes merged in 19.1.
722 You may need to edit Makefile to change the variables LIBDIR and
723 BINDIR from /usr/local to /usr/contrib.
725 To give movemail access to /usr/mail, you may need to execute
727 chmod 2755 etc/movemail; chgrp mail etc/movemail
729 Tandem Integrity S2 (mips-tandem-sysv)
731 Changes merged in 18.56 but subprocess support is turned off.
732 You will probably want to see if you can make subprocesses work.
734 You must edit `lib-src/Makefile' to define LOADLIBES = -mld.
736 Vaxen running Berkeley Unix (vax-dec-bsd4.1, vax-dec-bsd4.2, vax-dec-bsd4.3),
737 Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix),
738 System V (vax-dec-sysv0, vax-dec-sysv2), or
743 See under Ultrix for problems using X windows on Ultrix (vax-dec-ultrix).
745 18.27 worked on System V rel 2 (vax-dec-sysv2).
747 18.36 worked on System V rel 0 (vax-dec-sysv0).
749 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
750 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
751 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
752 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
755 Here are notes about some of the systems supported:
757 Berkeley 4.1 (bsd4.1)
761 Berkeley 4.2 (bsd4.2)
763 Works on several machines.
765 Berkeley 4.3 (bsd4.3)
767 Works, on Vaxes at least.
769 Linux (actually GNU/Linux)
771 Most of the complete systems which use the Linux kernel are close
772 enough to the GNU system to be considered variant GNU systems. We
773 call them "Linux-based GNU systems," or GNU/Linux for short.
775 It is not coincidence that many of the other components used with
776 Linux--including GNU Emacs--were developed specifically for the GNU
777 project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a free
778 complete Unix-like operating system. To reach this goal, we had to
779 develop whatever system components were not available as freely
780 redistributable software from some other source.
782 The GNU project wants users of GNU/Linux systems to be aware of how
783 these systems relate to the GNU project, because that will help
784 spread the GNU idea that software should be free--and thus encourage
785 people to write more free software. See the file LINUX-GNU in this
786 directory for more explanation.
790 See under "Intel 386".
794 For installation on MSDOS, see the file INSTALL (search for `MSDOG',
795 near the end of the file). See the "MS-DOS" chapter of the manual
796 for information about using Emacs on MSDOS.
800 If you are using MMDF instead of sendmail, you need to remove
801 /usr/lib/sendmail or modify lisp/paths.el before compiling.
802 lisp/paths.el (which is loaded during the build) will attempt to use
803 sendmail if it exists.
805 If you are using SMAIL, you need to define the macro
808 System V rel 0 (usg5.0)
810 Works, on Vaxes and 3bxxx's.
811 There are some problems in 18.37 due to shortnames/cccp problems:
812 use the emacs 17 cpp if you have it.
814 System V rel 2 (usg5.2)
816 Works on various machines.
817 On some (maybe all) machines the library -lPW exists and contains
818 a version of `alloca'. On these machines, to use it, put
820 #define LIB_STANDARD -lPW -lc
821 in the `src/m/MACHINENAME.h' file for the machine.
823 If you find that the character Meta-DEL makes Emacs crash,
824 find where function init_sys_modes in sysdep.c sets sg.c_cc[VQUIT]
825 and make it store 7 there. I have as yet no evidence of whether
826 this problem, known in HP/UX, exists in other system V versions.
828 System V rel 2.2 (usg5.2.2)
830 In 5.2.2 AT&T undid, incompatibly, their previous incompatible
831 change to the way the nlist library is called. A different s- file
832 is used to enable the other interface.
834 They call themselves the right choice--can't they choose?
836 Emacs version 18 unexec is currently not working properly
837 on 5.2.2. Nobody knows why yet. A workaround is to define
838 NO_REMAP. It is not yet known whether this applies to all
839 machines running 5.2.2.
841 System V rel 3 (usg5.3)
843 Some versions of this system support ptys and BSD-style sockets.
844 On such systems, you should define HAVE_PTYS and HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h.
846 If you want to link Emacs with shared libraries, define
847 USG_SHARED_LIBRARIES.
849 You may have to add ANSI idempotence #-lines to your sys/types.h
850 file to get Emacs to compile correctly. This may be necessary on
851 other pre-ANSI systems as well.
853 On an AT&T 6386WGS using System V Release 3.2 and X11R3, the X support
854 cannot be made to work. Whether or not the GNU relocating malloc is
855 used, the symptom is that the first call Emacs makes to sbrk(0) returns
856 (char *)-1. Sorry, you're stuck with character-only mode. Try
857 installing XFree86 to fix this.
859 System V rel 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 (usg5.4)
861 Supported, including shared libraries for ELF, but ptys do not work
862 because TIOCGPGRP fails to work on ptys (but Dell 2.2 seems to have
863 fixed this). This failure is probably due to a misunderstanding of
864 the consequences of the POSIX spec: many system designers mistakenly
865 think that POSIX requires this feature to fail. This is untrue;
866 ptys are an extension, and POSIX says that extensions *when used*
867 may change the action of standard facilities in any fashion.
869 If you get compilation errors about wrong number of
870 arguments to getpgrp, define GETPGRP_NO_ARG.
872 The standard C preprocessor may generate xmakefile incorrectly. However,
873 /lib/cpp will work, so use `make CPP=/lib/cpp'. Standard cpp
874 seems to work OK under Dell 2.2.
876 Some versions 3 and earlier of V.4, on the Intel 386 and 860, had
877 problems in the X11 libraries. These prevent Emacs from working
878 with X. You can use Emacs with X provided your copy of X is based
879 on X11 release 4 or newer, or is Dell's 2.2 (which is a 4.0.3).
880 Unfortunately, the only way you can tell whether your X11 library is
881 new enough is to try compiling Emacs to use X. If emacs runs, your
882 X11 library is new enough.
884 In this context, GSV4 and GSV4i are alternate names for X11R4.
885 OL2.* is X11R3 based. OL3 is in between X11R3 and X11R4, and may or
886 may not work, depending on who made the Unix system. If the library
887 libXol is part of the X distribution, then you have X11R3 and Emacs
890 Most versions of V.4 support sockets. If `/usr/lib/libsocket.so'
891 exists, your system supports them. If yours does not, you must add
892 #undef HAVE_SOCKETS in config.h, after the inclusion of s-usg5-4.h.
893 (Any system that supports Internet should implement sockets.)
897 Recent versions of Ultrix appear to support the features of Berkeley 4.3.
898 Ultrix was at the BSD 4.2 level for a long time after BSD 4.3 came out.
900 Ultrix 3.0 has incompatibilities in its X library if you have the
901 Ultrix version of X (UWS version 2.0). To solve them, you need to
902 prevent XvmsAlloc.o in Xlib from being used. Israel Pinkas says:
904 I added the following lines to config.h after the X defines:
906 #if defined(ultrix) && defined(X11)
907 #define OBJECTS_SYSTEM calloc.o
910 Then I ran the following:
912 ar x /usr/lib/libc.a calloc.o
914 The problem is said to be gone in UWS version 2.1.
918 Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> distributes a set of patches to
919 Emacs 18.59 to make it work nicely under VMS. Emacs 19 probably
920 won't work very well, or even compile. Levitte is working on a
921 port, so these problems should be fixed in the near future.
923 Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special VMS
924 distribution. See the file ../vms/VMSINSTALL for info on moving
925 Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.
927 Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000
929 For installation on all versions of the MS-Windows platform, see the
934 No special procedures should be needed to build a 64-bit Emacs. To
935 build a 32-bit Emacs, first ensure that the necessary 32-bit system
936 libraries and include files are installed. Then use:
938 env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu \
939 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
941 (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system).
943 Support for the following obsolete platforms was removed in Emacs 23.1
944 (the names in parentheses state the files in src/ that were removed):
946 Apollo SR10.x (unexapollo.c)
947 Convex (unexconvex.c and m/convex.c)
948 Xenix (unexenix.c and s/xenix.h)
949 Iris (unexmips.c m/iris4d.h m/irist.h s/iris3-5.h s/iris3-6.h)
951 Siemens machines running Sinix (unexsni.c)
952 Harris CXUX (s/cxux*)
953 ESIX, a variant of v.5.3 for the 386 (s/esix*)
954 Interactive (ISC) Unix (s/isc*)
955 Sony News (s/newsos*)
956 RTU 3.0, ucb universe (s/rtu.h)
957 UniSoft's UniPlus 5.2 (s/uniplus.h)
959 AT&T UNIX PC model 7300 (m/7300.h)
963 Altos 3068 Unix System V Release 2 (m/altos.h)
967 Celerity (m/celerity.h)
968 clipper (m/clipper.h)
969 convergent S series (m/cnvrgnt.h)
971 Motorola System V/88 machines (m/delta88k.h)
972 Bull DPX/2 range (m/dpx2.h)
973 Dual machines using unisoft port (m/dual.h)
974 Elxsi machine (running enix) (m/elxsi.h)
975 Fujitsu F301 machine (m/f301.h)
977 ibm ps/2 aix386 (m/ibmps2-aix.h)
979 Masscomp 5000 series running RTU, ucb universe (m/masscomp.h)
980 Megatest 68000's (m/mega68.h)
981 Whitechapel Computer Works MG1 (ns16000 based) (m/mg1.h)
982 Harris Night Hawk Series 1200 and Series 3000 (m/nh3000.h m/nh4000.h)
983 ns16000 (m/ns16000.h)
984 National Semiconductor 32000, running Genix (m/ns32000.h)
985 TI Nu machines using system V (m/nu.h)
986 HLH Orion (m/orion.h m/orion105.h)
987 Paragon i860 (m/paragon.h)
988 PFU A-series (m/pfa50.h)
989 Plexus running System V.2 (m/plexus.h)
990 pyramid. (m/pyramid.h)
992 Bull SPS-7 (m/sps7.h)
993 Hitachi SR2001/SR2201 (m/sr2k.h)
997 SEQUENT SYMMETRY (m/symmetry.h)
998 Tadpole 68k machines (m/tad68k.h)
1000 targon31 (m/targon31.h)
1001 Tektronix* (m/tek4300.h m/tekxd88.h)
1002 NCR Tower 32 running System V.2 (m/tower32.h)
1003 NCR Tower 32 running System V.3 (m/tower32v3.h)
1004 U-station (Nihon Unisys, SS5E; Sumitomo Denkoh, U-Station E30) (m/ustation.h)
1006 Honeywell XPS100 running UNIX System V.2 (m/xps100.h)
1007 Data General's DG/UX (s/dgux*)
1008 Irix before version 6
1012 SCO 3.2v4 (s/sco4.h)
1013 SCO 3.2v5 (s/sco5.h)
1014 Sun's 386-based RoadRunner (m/sun386.h)
1015 Sun3 machines (m/sun3*)
1016 Integrated Solutions 386 machine (m/is386.h)
1024 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
1026 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
1027 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
1028 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
1029 (at your option) any later version.
1031 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
1032 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
1033 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
1034 GNU General Public License for more details.
1036 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
1037 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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