1 Usage: configure [--OPTION[=VALUE] ...] [CONFIGURATION]
3 Set compilation and installation parameters for XEmacs, and report.
5 Note that for most of the following options, you can explicitly enable
6 them using `--OPTION=yes' and explicitly disable them using `--OPTION=no'.
7 This is especially useful for auto-detected options.
8 The option `--without-FEATURE' is a synonym for `--with-FEATURE=no'.
10 Options marked with a (*) are auto-detected.
12 Use colons (or quoted spaces) to separate directory names in option
13 values which are PATHs (i.e. lists of directories).
17 --help Issue this usage message.
18 --verbose Display the results of configure tests.
19 --extra-verbose Display even more information, useful for debugging.
24 --compiler=prog C compiler to use.
25 --with-gcc (*) Use GCC to compile XEmacs.
26 --without-gcc Don't use GCC to compile XEmacs.
27 --cflags=FLAGS Compiler flags (such as -O)
28 --cpp=prog C preprocessor to use (e.g. /usr/ccs/lib/cpp or cc -E)
29 --cppflags=FLAGS C preprocessor flags (e.g. -I/foo or -Dfoo=bar)
30 --libs=LIBS Additional libraries (e.g. -lfoo)
31 --ldflags=FLAGS Additional linker flags (e.g. -L/foo)
32 --site-includes=PATH List of directories to search first for header files.
33 --site-libraries=PATH List of directories to search first for libraries.
34 --site-prefixes=PATH List of directories to search for include/ and lib/
35 subdirectories, just after 'site-includes' and
37 --site-runtime-libraries=PATH
38 List of ALL directories to search for dynamically
39 linked libraries at run time.
40 --dynamic=yes Link dynamically if supported by system.
41 --dynamic=no Force static linking on systems where dynamic
42 linking is the default.
43 --srcdir=DIR Look for the XEmacs source files in DIR.
44 Works best when using GNU Make.
49 --prefix=DIR Install files below DIR. Defaults to `/usr/local'.
52 Window-system options:
54 --with-x11 (*) Support the X Window System.
55 --without-x11 Don't support X.
56 --x-includes=DIR Search for X header files in DIR.
57 --x-libraries=DIR Search for X libraries in DIR.
58 --without-toolbars Don't compile with any toolbar support.
59 --without-wmcommand Compile without realized leader window which will
60 keep the WM_COMMAND property.
61 --with-menubars=TYPE Use TYPE menubars (lucid, motif, or no). The Lucid
62 widgets emulate Motif (mostly) but are faster.
63 *WARNING* The Motif menubar is currently broken.
64 --with-scrollbars=TYPE Use TYPE scrollbars
65 (lucid, motif, athena, athena3d, or no).
66 --with-dialogs=TYPE Use TYPE dialog boxes (motif, athena, athena3d, or no).
67 Lucid menubars and scrollbars are the default.
68 Motif dialog boxes will be used if Motif can be found.
69 --with-dragndrop (*) Compile in the generic drag and drop API. This is
70 automatically added if one of the drag and drop
71 protocols is found (currently CDE, OffiX, MSWindows).
72 *WARNING* The Drag'n'drop support is under development
73 and is considered experimental.
74 --with-cde (*) Compile in support for CDE drag and drop.
75 --with-offix (*) Compile in support for OffiX drag and drop.
76 *WARNING* If you compile in OffiX, you may not be
77 able to use multiple X displays success-
78 fully. If the two servers are from
79 different vendors, the results may be
81 --without-xmu (*) For those unfortunates whose vendors don't ship Xmu.
82 --external-widget Compile with external widget support.
83 --with-xpm (*) Compile with support for XPM files.
84 It is highly recommended that you obtain XPM
85 (version 3.4h or better) if you don't already
86 have it. Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
87 --with-xface (*) Compile with support for X-Face mail header
88 conversion. Requires the compface library.
89 Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
90 --without-gif Compile without the built-in support for GIF image
92 --with-jpeg (*) Compile with support for JPEG image conversion.
93 Requires libjpeg from the Independent JPEG Group.
94 Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
95 --with-png (*) Compile with support for PNG image conversion.
96 Requires libpng. Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
97 --with-tiff (*) Compile with support for TIFF image conversion.
98 Requires Sam Lefflier's libtiff library.
99 Get if from the XEmacs FTP site.
104 --without-tty Don't support TTY-s.
105 --with-ncurses (*) Use the ncurses library for tty support.
106 --with-gpm (*) Compile in support for General Purpose Mouse.
111 --with-tooltalk (*) Support the ToolTalk IPC protocol.
112 --with-workshop Support the Sun WorkShop (formerly Sparcworks)
113 development environment.
114 --with-socks Compile with support for SOCKS (an Internet proxy).
115 --with-database=TYPE (*) Compile with database support. Valid types are
116 `no' or a comma-separated list of one or more
117 of `berkdb' and either `dbm' or `gnudbm'.
118 --with-sound=native (*) Compile with native sound support.
119 --with-sound=nas Compile with network sound support.
120 --with-sound=both Compile with native and network sound support.
121 --native-sound-lib=LIB Native sound support library. Needed on Suns
122 with --with-sound=both because both sound libraries
124 --with-pop support POP for mail retrieval
125 --with-kerberos support Kerberos-authenticated POP
126 --with-hesiod support Hesiod to get the POP server host
127 --with-dnet (*) Compile with support for DECnet.
128 --with-ldap (*) Compile with support for the LDAP protocol (requires
129 installed LDAP libraries on the system).
130 --mail-locking=TYPE (*) Specify the locking to be used by movemail to prevent
131 concurrent updates of mail spool files. Valid types
132 are `lockf', `flock', and `file'.
133 --with-site-lisp=yes Allow for a site-lisp directory in the XEmacs hierarchy
134 searched before the installation packages.
135 --with-site-modules=no Disable site-modules directory in the XEmacs hierarchy,
136 which is searched before the installation modules.
137 --package-path=PATH Directories to search for packages to dump with xemacs.
138 PATH splits into three parts separated by double
139 colons (::), an early, a late, and a last part,
140 corresponding to their position in the various
141 system paths: The early part is always first,
142 the late part somewhere in the middle, and the
143 last part at the very back.
144 Only the late part gets seen at dump time.
145 If PATH has only one component, that component
147 If PATH has two components, the first is
148 early, the second is late.
149 --infodir=DIR Directory to install XEmacs Info manuals and dir in.
150 --infopath=PATH Directories to search for Info documents, info dir
151 and localdir files in case run-time searching
153 --moduledir=DIR Directory to install dynamic modules in.
155 Internationalization options:
157 --with-mule Compile with Mule (MUlti-Lingual Emacs) support,
158 needed to support non-Latin-1 (including Asian)
160 --with-xim=xlib Compile with support for X input methods,
161 --with-xim=motif (*) Used in conjunction with Mule support.
162 Use either raw Xlib to provide XIM support, or
163 the Motif XmIm* routines (when available).
164 NOTE: On some systems bugs in X11's XIM support
165 will cause XEmacs to crash, so by default,
166 no XIM support is compiled in, unless running
167 on Solaris and the XmIm* routines are detected.
168 --with-canna (*) Compile with support for Canna (a Japanese input method
169 used in conjunction with Mule support).
170 --with-wnn (*) Compile with support for WNN (a multi-language input
171 method used in conjunction with Mule support).
172 --with-wnn6 (*) Compile with support for the comercial package WNN
174 --with-i18n3 Compile with I18N level 3 (support for message
175 translation). This doesn't currently work.
176 --with-xfs Compile with XFontSet support for bilingual menubar.
177 Can't use this option with --with-xim=motif or xlib.
178 And should have --with-menubars=lucid.
183 --debug Compile with support for debugging XEmacs.
184 (Causes code-size increase and little loss of speed.)
185 --error-checking=TYPE[,TYPE]...
186 Compile with internal error-checking added.
187 Causes noticeable loss of speed. Valid types
188 are extents, bufpos, malloc, gc, typecheck.
189 --error-checking=none Disable all internal error-checking (the default).
190 --error-checking=all Enable all internal error-checking.
191 --memory-usage-stats Compile with additional code to allow you to
192 determine what XEmacs's memory is being used
193 for. Causes a small code increase but no loss
194 of speed. Normally enabled when --debug is given.
195 --no-doc-file Don't rebuild the DOC file unless it's explicitly
196 deleted. Only use during development. (It speeds
197 up the compile-run-test cycle.)
198 --use-union-type Enable or disable use of a union, instead of an
199 int, for the fundamental Lisp_Object type; this
200 provides stricter type-checking. Only works with
201 some systems and compilers.
202 --with-quantify Add support for performance debugging using Quantify.
203 --with-purify Add support for memory debugging using Purify.
208 --rel-alloc Use the relocating allocator (default for this option
209 is system-dependent).
210 --with-dlmalloc Control usage of Doug Lea malloc on systems that have
211 it in the standard C library (default is to use it if
213 --with-system-malloc Force use of the system malloc, rather than GNU malloc.
214 --with-debug-malloc Use the debugging malloc package.
215 --with-clash-detection Use lock files to detect multiple edits of the same
216 file. The default is to not do clash detection.
217 --lockdir=DIR The directory to put clash detection files in, such as
219 Defaults to `${statedir}/xemacs/lock'.
221 You may also specify any of the `path' variables found in Makefile.in,
222 including --bindir, --libdir, --docdir, --lispdir, --sitelispdir,
223 --datadir, --infodir, --mandir and so on. Note that we recommend
224 against explicitly setting any of these variables. See the INSTALL
225 file for a complete list plus the reasons we advise not changing them.
227 If successful, configure leaves its status in config.status. If
228 unsuccessful after disturbing the status quo, it removes config.status.
230 The configure script also recognizes some environment variables, each
231 of which is equivalent to a corresponding configure flag. A specified
232 configure flag always overrides the environment variable.
234 envvar configure flag
242 LD_RUN_PATH --site-runtime-libraries
244 For more details on the install process, consult the INSTALL file.