must install as root using the sudo command. However, it is not
recommended; see the notes section below for more details.
-The --enable-carbon-app specifies that the carbon GUI application
+The --enable-carbon-app specifies that the Carbon GUI application
should be installed into /Application. If you want it to install in a
different location, specify --enable-carbon-app=<mydir>
-k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the
existing info files.
-After Emacs is installed, you can run it by typing `emacs -nw' from a
-terminal (make sure your path contains /usr/local/bin) or by
-double-clicking on /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. To start
-Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to the
-executable in the bundle, i.e.,
+After Emacs is installed, you can run a text-only terminal version by
+typing `emacs' from a terminal (make sure your path contains
+/usr/local/bin) or a GUI application by double-clicking on
+/Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. Even in the terminal version,
+some Carbon-specific functions such as `mac-set-file-creator' are
+still meaningful.
+
+To start Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to
+the executable in the bundle, i.e.,
/Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources
-correctly. You may want to create a symlink or alias to this path to
-quickly access both the terminal and GUI versions.
+correctly. You may want to create an alias to this path to quickly
+access both the terminal and GUI versions. You can specify some
+standard Emacs options when invoking Emacs in this way.
-If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window System,
-instead of typing `./configure' above, type
+Emacs on Mac OS X is not configured to use X11 unless either it is
+requested or the use of Carbon is disabled explicitly. So, if you are
+building Emacs to run on X Window System, you need to specify like:
./configure --with-x
+Note that the Carbon-specific functions mentioned above are not
+available on the X11-enabled build.
To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
~/.termcap and log in again.
a script that will greatly simplify the process. It is called
make-package and it is contained in this directory. It will generate
a disc image containing a installer bundle. By default the installer
-will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the carbon
+will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the Carbon
application in /Applications. Typical usage would be
./make-package