Re: Patches Applied for 21.1.8 [includes essential pathc]

Here is the patch I applied to INSTALL. 1999-10-22 Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; * INSTALL: Added more information about README.packages, and re-numbered some bullets. --- INSTALL.~2~ Thu Oct 21 17:39:26 1999 +++ INSTALL Fri Oct 22 08:14:47 1999 ＠＠ -89,6 +89,11 ＠＠ More information and suggestions for which packages to install see the file README.packages. +IMPORTANT! The file README.packages contain information vital to have +a fully working XEmacs. This information was not included in this file +only because it is too large for this terse INSTALL. Please read +README.packages now! + By default, packages will be searched for in the path ~/.xemacs::$prefix/lib/xemacs-${version}/mule-packages:$prefix/lib/xemacs/mule-packages:$prefix/lib/xemacs-${version}/xemacs-packages:$prefix/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages ＠＠ -401,7 +406,7 ＠＠ same configuration. If `configure' exits with an error after disturbing the status quo, it removes `config.status'. -4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right +5) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with XEmacs Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES, ＠＠ -424,7 +429,7 ＠＠ XEmacs cannot detect, you may need to change the value of `directory-abbrev-alist'. -5) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs +6) Put into `./lisp/site-init.el' or `./lisp/site-load.el' any Emacs Lisp code you want XEmacs to load before it is dumped out. Use site-load.el for additional libraries if you arrange for their documentation strings to be in the lib-src/DOC file (see ＠＠ -443,12 +448,12 ＠＠ The `site-*.el' files are nonexistent in the distribution. You do not need to create them if you have nothing to put in them. -6) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may +7) Refer to the file `./etc/TERMS' for information on fields you may wish to add to various termcap entries. The files `./etc/termcap.ucb' and `./etc/termcap.dat' may already contain appropriately-modified entries. -7) Run `make' in the top directory of the XEmacs distribution to finish +8) Run `make' in the top directory of the XEmacs distribution to finish building XEmacs in the standard way. The final executable file is named `src/emacs'. You can execute this file "in place" without copying it, if you wish; then it automatically uses the sibling ＠＠ -512,18 +517,18 ＠＠ the command. See the section below called `MAKE VARIABLES' for more information on this. -8) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox files, -then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or setgid -to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe. +9) If your system uses lock files to interlock access to mailer inbox +files, then you might need to make the movemail program setuid or +setgid to enable it to write the lock files. We believe this is safe. The setuid/setgid bits need not be set on any other XEmacs-related executables. -9) You are done with the hard part! You can remove executables and +10) You are done with the hard part! You can remove executables and object files from the build directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile XEmacs for a different configuration), type `make distclean'. -10) You should now go to the XEmacs web page at http://www.xemacs.org/ +11) You should now go to the XEmacs web page at http://www.xemacs.org/ and decide what additional Lisp support you wish to have. MAKE VARIABLES ＠＠ -664,13 +669,13 ＠＠ `src/config.h', and change the two `#include' directives to include the appropriate system and architecture description files. -2) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If +3) Edit `./src/config.h' to set the right options for your system. If you need to override any of the definitions in the s/*.h and m/*.h files for your system and machine, do so by editing config.h, not by changing the s/*.h and m/*.h files. Occasionally you may need to redefine parameters used in `./lib-src/movemail.c'. -3) If you're going to use the make utility to build XEmacs, you will +4) If you're going to use the make utility to build XEmacs, you will still need to run `configure' first, giving the appropriate values for the variables in the sections entitled "Things `configure' Might Edit" and "Where To Install Things." Note that you may only need to change ＠＠ -769,6 +774,10 ＠＠ PROBLEMS + +The most likely problem is that you forgot to read and follow the +directions in README.packages. You can not have a working XEmacs +without downloading some additional packages. See the file PROBLEMS in this directory for a list of various problems sometimes encountered, and what to do about them.