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- Emacs_for_NeXTstep.4.20a1.README
- Oct 14, 1997
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- md5sum: (size ~9MB)
- e92641028d59b614fd2e60463af6c0d3 Emacs_for_NeXTstep.4.20a1.NIHS.b.tar.gz
-
- Emacs for NeXTstep is a version of GNU Emacs 19.34 which adds native
- support for the NeXTstep window system. If you have installed the old
- Emacs.app in /LocalApps, don't forget to delete it first. Installation
- will also create links to the /usr/local hierarchy which makes Emacs
- accessible to shell users. This package should be usable on all (most)
- versions of NEXTSTEP (3.x) and OpenStep (4.x).
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- It's easy to install. Login as root, open the Emacs_for_NeXTstep.pkg
- package, and install it into /LocalApps. Sorry, but /LocalApps is
- hard-coded into this build of emacs, so alternate installation locations
- will not work.
-
- Once installed, launch the newly installed /LocalApps/Emacs.app.
-
-
- DETAILS
-
- The problem with these NeXTstep native versions (all emacs versions
- actually), is that they are VERY dependant upon the system their built on
- and for because as part of the installation process, emacs preloads a
- bunch of lisp files, and dumps a binary image of its executable. So, up
- till now, a particular emacs binary will only run on the same OS version it
- was built on.To make matters worse (for OpenStep users), it is a little
- difficult (but not impossible) to build a NEXTSTEP program on an OpenStep
- box. Well, this problem (for the most part) has now been solved.
-
- I've configured this package to delay this dump until installation time, so
- that the emacs binary created will be (mostly) guaranteed to work on your
- machine. I've verified this for i386 NEXTSTEP 3.3p1 and i386 OpenStep 4.2.
-
- If you ever change system libraries and/or upgrade the OS so that this
- emacs will no longer function, you can manually dump a new version of
- emacs. Simply run (as root) the included program:
- /LocalApps/Emacs.app/emacsdump
- to produce a new binary.
-
-
- NOTES
-
- I gzipped all the info files and left out most of the lisp source files to
- save space. Despite that, this is still quite a large package.
-
- I only packaged up pre-existing software. If you find bugs, contact the
- current maintainer of Emacs_for_NeXTstep, Christian Limpach, as listed below.
-
-
- HISTORY
-
- v4.20a1
- Based on emacs-4.2b7 (GNU emacs-19.34).
- First attempt at portable emacs package
-
-
- CREDITS
-
- Emacs (for NeXTstep) source
- Christian Limpach <chris@nice.ch>
- http://nice.ethz.ch/~chris/emacs.html
-
- Package Creation
- Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
- Computer System Manager
- University of Nebraska at Lincoln
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
-
- Jaokin Joahansson
- PackageBuilder.app, v1.1
- d91-jjo@nada.kth.se
-
-