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diff --git a/mac/INSTALL b/mac/INSTALL index 3ea6ab6f392..dd620995077 100644 --- a/mac/INSTALL +++ b/mac/INSTALL @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/GNU-fonts.smi.bin +### IMPORTANT ### If you use StuffIf Expander to decompress and untar +the distribution, you *must* set the radio button in the +Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to +"Never". Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted. + * BUILDING EMACS To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to @@ -72,23 +77,6 @@ To build optimized or debugging version of Emacs in MPW, follow the comment in makefile.MPW to enable the -opt speed or -sym on option (see note below). -The Mac version requires compiled Lisp files to be present in the lisp -directory to run properly. It is cumbersome to bootstrap from only -the Lisp source files. One way of getting the compiled Lisp files is -to build Emacs once on, say, a Unix system and transfer that directory -to the Mac. Note that linefeed conversion must be disabled when -transferring compiled Lisp files. - -An alternative is to unzip and untar the archive lisp-elc.tgz. An -older version of frame.elc in the archive may cause a problem when the -Mac version starts up. If this is the case, simply remove or rename -that file. Then once Emacs runs, you can invoke -byte-recompile-directory on the lisp directory to byte-compile all -out-of-date Lisp files. - -You may also need to run update-autoloads-from-directories on the lisp -directory to bring loaddefs.el up-to-date. - * NOTES Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.1 - 9.0. |