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-session Compile without realized leader window which will
60 keep the WM_COMMAND property. Required for proper
62 --with-menubars=TYPE Use TYPE menubars (lucid, motif, or no). The Lucid
63 widgets emulate Motif (mostly) but are faster.
64 *WARNING* The Motif menubar is currently broken.
65 --with-scrollbars=TYPE Use TYPE scrollbars
66 (lucid, motif, athena, athena3d, or no).
67 --with-dialogs=TYPE Use TYPE dialog boxes (motif, athena, athena3d, or no).
68 Lucid menubars and scrollbars are the default.
69 Motif dialog boxes will be used if Motif can be found.
70 --with-dragndrop (*) Compile in the generic drag and drop API. This is
71 automatically added if one of the drag and drop
72 protocols is found (currently CDE, OffiX, MSWindows).
73 *WARNING* The Drag'n'drop support is under development
74 and is considered experimental.
75 --with-cde (*) Compile in support for CDE drag and drop.
76 --with-offix (*) Compile in support for OffiX drag and drop.
77 *WARNING* If you compile in OffiX, you may not be
78 able to use multiple X displays success-
79 fully. If the two servers are from
80 different vendors, the results may be
82 --without-xmu (*) For those unfortunates whose vendors don't ship Xmu.
83 --external-widget Compile with external widget support.
84 --with-xpm (*) Compile with support for XPM files.
85 It is highly recommended that you obtain XPM
86 (version 3.4h or better) if you don't already
87 have it. Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
88 --with-xface (*) Compile with support for X-Face mail header
89 conversion. Requires the compface library.
90 Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
91 --without-gif Compile without the built-in support for GIF image
93 --with-jpeg (*) Compile with support for JPEG image conversion.
94 Requires libjpeg from the Independent JPEG Group.
95 Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
96 --with-png (*) Compile with support for PNG image conversion.
97 Requires libpng. Get it from the XEmacs FTP site.
98 --with-tiff (*) Compile with support for TIFF image conversion.
99 Requires Sam Lefflier's libtiff library.
100 Get if from the XEmacs FTP site.
105 --without-tty Don't support TTY-s.
106 --with-ncurses (*) Use the ncurses library for tty support.
107 --with-gpm (*) Compile in support for General Purpose Mouse.
112 --with-tooltalk (*) Support the ToolTalk IPC protocol.
113 --with-workshop Support the Sun WorkShop (formerly Sparcworks)
114 development environment.
115 --with-socks Compile with support for SOCKS (an Internet proxy).
116 --with-database=TYPE (*) Compile with database support. Valid types are
117 `no' or a comma-separated list of one or more
118 of `berkdb' and either `dbm' or `gnudbm'.
119 --with-sound=native (*) Compile with native sound support.
120 --with-sound=nas Compile with network sound support.
121 --with-sound=both Compile with native and network sound support.
122 --native-sound-lib=LIB Native sound support library. Needed on Suns
123 with --with-sound=both because both sound libraries
125 --with-pop support POP for mail retrieval
126 --with-kerberos support Kerberos-authenticated POP
127 --with-hesiod support Hesiod to get the POP server host
128 --with-dnet (*) Compile with support for DECnet.
129 --with-ldap (*) Compile with support for the LDAP protocol (requires
130 installed LDAP libraries on the system).
131 --mail-locking=TYPE (*) Specify the locking to be used by movemail to prevent
132 concurrent updates of mail spool files. Valid types
133 are `lockf', `flock', and `file'.
134 --with-site-lisp=yes Allow for a site-lisp directory in the XEmacs hierarchy
135 searched before the installation packages.
136 --with-site-modules=no Disable site-modules directory in the XEmacs hierarchy,
137 which is searched before the installation modules.
138 --package-path=PATH Directories to search for packages to dump with xemacs.
139 PATH splits into three parts separated by double
140 colons (::), an early, a late, and a last part,
141 corresponding to their position in the various
142 system paths: The early part is always first,
143 the late part somewhere in the middle, and the
144 last part at the very back.
145 Only the late part gets seen at dump time.
146 If PATH has only one component, that component
148 If PATH has two components, the first is
149 early, the second is late.
150 --infodir=DIR Directory to install XEmacs Info manuals and dir in.
151 --infopath=PATH Directories to search for Info documents, info dir
152 and localdir files in case run-time searching
154 --moduledir=DIR Directory to install dynamic modules in.
156 Internationalization options:
158 --with-mule Compile with Mule (MUlti-Lingual Emacs) support,
159 needed to support non-Latin-1 (including Asian)
161 --with-xim=xlib Compile with support for X input methods,
162 --with-xim=motif (*) Used in conjunction with Mule support.
163 Use either raw Xlib to provide XIM support, or
164 the Motif XmIm* routines (when available).
165 NOTE: On some systems bugs in X11's XIM support
166 will cause XEmacs to crash, so by default,
167 no XIM support is compiled in, unless running
168 on Solaris and the XmIm* routines are detected.
169 --with-canna (*) Compile with support for Canna (a Japanese input method
170 used in conjunction with Mule support).
171 --with-wnn (*) Compile with support for WNN (a multi-language input
172 method used in conjunction with Mule support).
173 --with-wnn6 (*) Compile with support for the comercial package WNN
175 --with-i18n3 Compile with I18N level 3 (support for message
176 translation). This doesn't currently work.
177 --with-xfs Compile with XFontSet support for bilingual menubar.
178 Can't use this option with --with-xim=motif or xlib.
179 And should have --with-menubars=lucid.
184 --debug Compile with support for debugging XEmacs.
185 (Causes code-size increase and little loss of speed.)
186 --error-checking=TYPE[,TYPE]...
187 Compile with internal error-checking added.
188 Causes noticeable loss of speed. Valid types
189 are extents, bufpos, malloc, gc, typecheck.
190 --error-checking=none Disable all internal error-checking (the default).
191 --error-checking=all Enable all internal error-checking.
192 --memory-usage-stats Compile with additional code to allow you to
193 determine what XEmacs's memory is being used
194 for. Causes a small code increase but no loss
195 of speed. Normally enabled when --debug is given.
196 --no-doc-file Don't rebuild the DOC file unless it's explicitly
197 deleted. Only use during development. (It speeds
198 up the compile-run-test cycle.)
199 --use-union-type Enable or disable use of a union, instead of an
200 int, for the fundamental Lisp_Object type; this
201 provides stricter type-checking. Only works with
202 some systems and compilers.
203 --with-quantify Add support for performance debugging using Quantify.
204 --with-purify Add support for memory debugging using Purify.
209 --rel-alloc Use the relocating allocator (default for this option
210 is system-dependent).
211 --with-dlmalloc Control usage of Doug Lea malloc on systems that have
212 it in the standard C library (default is to use it if
214 --with-system-malloc Force use of the system malloc, rather than GNU malloc.
215 --with-debug-malloc Use the debugging malloc package.
216 --with-clash-detection Use lock files to detect multiple edits of the same
217 file. The default is to not do clash detection.
218 --lockdir=DIR The directory to put clash detection files in, such as
220 Defaults to `${statedir}/xemacs/lock'.
222 You may also specify any of the `path' variables found in Makefile.in,
223 including --bindir, --libdir, --lispdir, --sitelispdir, --datadir,
224 --infodir, --mandir and so on. Note that we recommend against
225 explicitly setting any of these variables. See the INSTALL file for a
226 complete list plus the reasons we advise not changing them.
228 If successful, configure leaves its status in config.status. If
229 unsuccessful after disturbing the status quo, it removes config.status.
231 The configure script also recognizes some environment variables, each
232 of which is equivalent to a corresponding configure flag. A specified
233 configure flag always overrides the environment variable.
235 envvar configure flag
243 LD_RUN_PATH --site-runtime-libraries
245 For more details on the install process, consult the INSTALL file.