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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-04-16 16:27:28 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-04-16 16:27:28 +0300
commitbf6b4923f7eedea193dee2130bf7fa597a5932d4 (patch)
tree62bd144e45df20c0fc1600eedb3f744dcfe959a2 /msdos/INSTALL
parent3a31cae4677c7c5e501dcf7e5c520e49db16f75e (diff)
downloademacs-bf6b4923f7eedea193dee2130bf7fa597a5932d4.tar.gz
Fix the MSDOS build.
src/unexcoff.c [MSDOS]: Include libc/atexit.h. (copy_text_and_data): Zero out the atexit chain pointer before dumping Emacs. src/termhooks.h (encode_terminal_code): Update prototype. src/term.c (encode_terminal_code) [DOS_NT]: Make it externally visible for all DOS_NT ports, not just WINDOWSNT. (syms_of_term) [!MSDOS]: Don't define 'tty-menu-*' symbols on MSDOS. src/sysdep.c (emacs_sigaction_init, init_signals): Don't use SIGCHLD unless it is defined. (emacs_pipe) [MSDOS]: Redirect to 'pipe'. src/process.c (close_on_exec, accept4, process_socket): Move into the "ifdef subprocesses" part. (catch_child_signal): Condition by "ifdef subprocesses". (syms_of_process) <Qinternal_default_process_sentinel> <Qinternal_default_process_filter>: Condition by "ifdef subprocesses". src/msdos.h: Add prototypes for new functions. (EINPROGRESS): Define. (O_CLOEXEC): Define to zero. src/msdos.c (check_window_system): Remove unnecessary an incompatible duplicate function. (sys_opendir, readlinkat, faccessat, fstatat, unsetenv): New functions in support of new functionality. src/menu.c (single_menu_item): Add visual indication of submenu also for menus on MSDOS frames. (Fx_popup_menu) [!MSDOS]: Do not call tty_menu_show on MSDOS. src/lisp.h (CHECK_PROCESS) [!subprocesses]: Do not define when async subprocesses aren't supported. src/font.h (FONT_WIDTH) [MSDOS]: MSDOS-specific definition. src/emacs.c (close_output_streams): Zero out errno before calling close_stream. src/dired.c [MSDOS]: Include msdos.h. src/conf_post.h (opendir) [MSDOS]: Redirect to sys_opendir. (DATA_START) [MSDOS]: Define. (SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA) [MSDOS]: Enlarge by 25K. src/callproc.c (block_child_signal, unblock_child_signal) [MSDOS]: Ifdef away for MSDOS. (record_kill_process) [MSDOS]: Ifdef away the entire body for MSDOS. (call_process_cleanup) [MSDOS]: Ifdef away portions not relevant for MSDOS. (call_process) [MSDOS]: Fix call sequence of dostounix_filename. Use temporary file template that is compatible with mkostemp. Move vfork-related portions under #ifndef MSDOS. (syms_of_callproc): Unify templates of MSDOS and WINDOWSNT. lisp/term/pc-win.el (x-list-fonts, x-get-selection-value): Provide doc strings, as required by snarf-documentation. msdos/sedlisp.inp: msdos/sedlibmk.inp: msdos/sedleim.inp: msdos/sed3v2.inp: msdos/sed2v2.inp: msdos/sed1v2.inp: Update Sed scripts for Emacs 24.4. msdos/inttypes.h: Add PRIdMAX. msdos/INSTALL: Update for Emacs 24.4. msdos/sedadmin.inp: New file.
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diff --git a/msdos/INSTALL b/msdos/INSTALL
index 815da38bd77..de950b89def 100644
--- a/msdos/INSTALL
+++ b/msdos/INSTALL
@@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2014 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
-The DJGPP port of GNU Emacs builds and runs on plain DOS and also on
-all versions of MS-Windows from version 3.X on, including Windows XP,
-Vista, and Windows 7 (however, see below for issues with Windows Vista
-and 7).
+The DJGPP port of GNU Emacs builds and runs on all versions of
+MS-Windows from version 3.X on, including Windows XP, Vista, and
+Windows 7 (however, see below for issues with Windows Vista and 7).
+Building on plain MS-DOS is supported only if long file names are
+supported (e.g., with a specialized driver such as doslfn).
To build and install the DJGPP port, you need to have the DJGPP ports
-of GCC (the GNU C compiler), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the
+of GCC (the GNU C compiler), GNU Make, rm, mv, cp, and sed. See the
remarks in CONFIG.BAT for more information about locations and
-versions. The Emacs FAQ (see info/efaq) includes pointers to Internet
-sites where you can find the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS".
-The configuration step (see below) will test for these utilities and
-will refuse to continue if any of them isn't found.
+versions. The Emacs FAQ (see info/efaq.info) includes pointers to
+Internet sites where you can find the necessary utilities; search for
+"MS-DOS". The configuration step (see below) will test for these
+utilities and will refuse to continue if any of them isn't found.
Bootstrapping Emacs or recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp'
subdirectory using the various targets in the lisp/Makefile file
@@ -27,18 +28,14 @@ are distributed in byte-compiled form as well. As for bootstrapping
itself, you will only need that if you check-out development sources
from the Emacs source repository.
-If you are building the DJGPP version of Emacs on a DOS-like system
-which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 9X or Windows XP), you
-need to make sure that long file names are handled consistently both
-when you unpack the distribution and compile it. With DJGPP v2.0 or
-later, long file names support is by default, so you need to unpack
-Emacs distribution in a way that doesn't truncate the original long
-filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace; the easiest way to do this is to
-use djtar program which comes with DJGPP, since it will behave
-consistently with the rest of DJGPP tools. Alternatively, you can
-build Emacs with LFN=n, if some of your tools don't support long file
-names: just ensure that LFN is set to `n' during both unpacking and
-compiling.
+Building the DJGPP version of Emacs is currently supported only on
+systems which support long file names (e.g. Windows 9X or Windows XP).
+You need to unpack Emacs distribution in a way that doesn't truncate
+the original long filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace; the easiest way
+to do this is to use djtar program which comes with DJGPP, since it
+will behave consistently with the rest of DJGPP tools. Do _not_
+disable the DJGPP long-file-name support (a.k.a. "LFN") while building
+Emacs.
(By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
@@ -46,18 +43,6 @@ done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
into strange problems during the build process.)
-It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
-names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
-compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
-support long file names on Windows no matter what was the setting
-of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
-and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
-to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
-directories are called by their original long names as found in the
-distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
-or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
-djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
-
To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
djtar -x emacs.tgz
@@ -68,13 +53,6 @@ your system.)
When unpacking Emacs is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version.
-On plain DOS, unpacking can complain about several directories and
-files in the `nextstep' subdirectory of the `emacs-XX.YY' top-level
-directory. This is because the names of these files overflow the
-67-character limit on the file-name length imposed by DOS filesystems.
-When prompted by `djtar' for a different name for these files, just
-press [Enter] to skip them: they are not needed for the DJGPP build.
-
If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
`emacs-XX.YY' top-level directory created by unpacking emacs.tgz,