SXEmacs Installation Guide
-Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Steve Youngs
+Copyright (C) 2005 - 2015 Steve Youngs
+
+
+,----[ In-Tree Builds Lead To Madness ]
+| Please note that because of the complexity of SXEmacs and its build
+| chain, we do not support building from within the source tree itself.
+|
+| So please, ALWAYS run `configure' and `make' from a separate directory,
+| completely outside of the source tree.
+|
+| In the code examples below, "${SRCTREE}" refers to the path where
+| you wish to build SXEmacs.
+`----
Building from tarball release:
See ./configure --help for a description of all possible options,
then
- $ ./configure [options]
+ $ ${SRCTREE}/configure [options]
$ make
$ make check
$ make install
Also, some configuration options may need external libraries that are
not shipped with SXEmacs. SXEmacs will determine which libraries it
-needs at configuration time (when you run `./configure').
+needs at configuration time (when you run `${SRCTREE}/configure').
If configure can't find a particular library and you _do_ have it
installed, you can usually get configure to find it by adding to the
If the optional libraries are in a non-standard location, use
--with-site-prefixes option of configure. Ex:
- ./configure --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local
+ ${SRCTREE}/configure --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local
You can specify a list of paths with --with-site-prefixes:
- ./configure --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local:/sw
+ ${SRCTREE}/configure --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local:/sw
NOTE: Usage of --prefix does NOT imply that it is added to
site prefixes, so if you may need to add --with-site-prefixes
even with --prefix:
- ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local
+ ${SRCTREE}/configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local
will attempt to gather this information and create a tar file with
helpful logs.
-Before submitting a report at http://issues.sxemacs.org/, please show
+Before submitting a report at https://issues.sxemacs.org/, please show
up either on the mailing list or the IRC channel. The developers can
tell you in much greater detail what they need and how you can get the
files and information you need.
-Building from git source:
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+Building from git source:
+------------------------
This is identical to building from the tarball sources, with the
addition of an extra step, and some extra requirements (that are most
-likely already on your system).
+likely already on your system). Remember that "in-tree" builds are
+not supported, so configure and make from a directory outside the
+tree.
$ ./autogen.sh
- $ ./configure [options]
+ $ ${SRCTREE}/configure [options]
$ make
$ make check
$ make install
automake 1.9.4
autoconf 2.60
- texinfo 4.8
+ texinfo 5.2 (preferably 6.0)
Warnings from autogen.sh:
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