INSTALL from sources

Andreas Röhler writes: Just like curing the cold, it's as simple as "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning." If you think you need it, you're probably thinking too much. It's just ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --with-system-packages=$PATH_TO_INSTALLED_PACKAGES make make install # you may need su or sudo --prefix may be omitted if the default of /usr/local is appropriate, and --with-system-packages may be omitted if the default of $prefix/share/xemacs is appropriate. ($PATH_TO_INSTALLED_PACKAGES should contain xemacs-packages and possibly mule-packages and/or site-packages.) The only tricky thing about it is that the packages *must* be in installed format (there is a way to create a symlink farm instead of physical copies, but I don't know if that really makes sense); you can't use packages in the source tree. (This is admittedly stupid, but only Mike knows enough about the package system to do something about it in the near future and he doesn't seem interested.) The easiest way to install packages is cd /tmp # NOTE NOTE NOTE: the host is FTP.xemacs.org, not WWW.xemacs.org # There's also a .bz2 which saves about 25% bandwidth. wget http://ftp.xemacs.org/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz cd $PATH_TO_INSTALLED_PACKAGES tar xzf /tmp/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz To work on packages you do need a package source tree, of course. But that's a different thread. All of this is documented in excruciating detail in man/beta.texi, or if you have a working Info reader, you can cd to man, do make beta.info, and read it more pleasantly. No, I see no point in adding more documentation. beta.texi is the appropriate place, this *is* a beta distribution. The next public release of XEmacs *will* build and install with the above instructions, and the various feature options are documented in ./configure --help. I also hope to make package bootstrapping somewhat more self-contained (but that's a different thread, too). _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta