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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Building GNU emacs
Message-ID: <1991May11.214759.1754@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 11 May 91 21:47:59 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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I've just installed emacs 18.57 on an SGI PI 4D/25 at the request of
several users and found the installation process baffling.  I have some
questions which perhaps some guru can clarify.

1. I want to support both X-terminals and regular terminals.  To do this
   I had to compile the X version, rename it to xemacs, then edit
   config.h and do another compile to get a non-X version.  Is it
   possible to have a single binary support both kinds of terminals?

2. Why does emacs move its own source code around?  I made it from
   /usr/src/gnu/emacs and when I tried to recompile it the directory was
   missing.  I finally tracked down all the source code in
   /usr/local/emacs.  In fact, I found two complete copies in separate
   subdirectories (src and emacs-18.57/src).  It also generated many
   different copies of the help file and so on.  Is there some easy way
   of stripping down the excess files?
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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