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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-10-14 17:18:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2014-10-14 17:18:15 -0400 |
| commit | e01955dfb3f1f47a11c9f1f907ef9234987f47d4 (patch) | |
| tree | a7c3a55c12f75e0fbce6bffe2500fc6a3bbbdd71 | |
| parent | ad7abc3fce746d1cd5a127f3dffacf9ee4c0567b (diff) | |
| download | emacs-e01955dfb3f1f47a11c9f1f907ef9234987f47d4.tar.gz | |
More INSTALL trivia
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@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ GNU Emacs Installation Guide -Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2014 Free Software Foundation, -Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. @@ -209,20 +208,7 @@ DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: see msdos/INSTALL. For later versions of MS Windows, see the file nt/INSTALL. For GNUstep and Mac OS X, see nextstep/INSTALL.) -1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle -a program whose pure code is 1.5 MB and whose data area is at -least 2.8 MB and can reach 100 MB or more. If the swapping space is -insufficient, you will get an error in the command `temacs -batch -l -loadup dump', found in `./src/Makefile.in', or possibly when -running the final dumped Emacs. (This should not be an issue -on any recent system.) - -Building Emacs requires about 230 MB of disk space (including the -Emacs sources). Once installed, Emacs occupies about 120 MB in the file -system where it is installed; this includes the executable files, Lisp -libraries, miscellaneous data files, and on-line documentation. If -the building and installation take place in different directories, -then the installation procedure momentarily requires 230+120 MB. +1) See the basic installation summary above for the disk space requirements. 2) In the unlikely event that `configure' does not detect your system type correctly, consult `./etc/MACHINES' to see what --host, --build @@ -262,7 +248,7 @@ Gtk or Motif, if you have the Xaw3d library installed (see You can tell configure where to search for GTK by specifying `--with-pkg-config-prog=PATH' where PATH is the pathname to -pkg-config. Note that GTK version 2.6 or newer is required for Emacs. +pkg-config. Emacs will autolaunch a D-Bus session bus, when the environment variable DISPLAY is set, but no session bus is running. This might be |