Emacs-xft

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emacs-xft - GNU Emacs with experimental Xft support

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Rating

4 points (out of 4)

Rating scheme: 4 points means the source builds seamlessly on Solaris Express (OpenSolaris). Points are subtracted as follows:

  • Minus 1 if the source doesn't come with an automated way to localize the build (e.g. configure)
  • Minus 1 if the source won't compile with Sun's cc (this usually means the code is gcc-centric)
  • Minus 1 if a minor patch is required, or
  • Minus 2 if a major patch(es) is required

How to build emacs-xft-23.0.2006.11.05 on Solaris Express

Build Environment (platform, compiler, tools, PATH, ld)

Configure and compile steps (on x86 hardware)

/usr/bin/bzip2 -dc emacs-xft-23.0.2006.11.05.tar.bz2 | /usr/sfw/bin/gtar xf -

cd SFEemacs-xft-23.0.2006.11.05

cd emacs

export CPP="/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -E"
export CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc
export CFLAGS="-O4"
export LDFLAGS="-Xlinker -zignore -lX11 -L/usr/sfw/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib -lfreetype"
export PERL=/usr/perl5/bin/perl

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --libdir=/usr/lib              \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib      \
            --infodir=/usr/share/info            \
            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --with-gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft

make bootstrap
make 

Other configure options

output of ./configure --help

Directory paths that emacs-xft installs to

bin
lib/emacs/23.0.0/i386-pc-solaris2.11
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/charsets
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/e
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/ezimage
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/gnus
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/gud
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/icons
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/low-color
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/mail
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/images/smilies
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/tree-widget/default
share/emacs/23.0.0/etc/tree-widget/folder
share/emacs/23.0.0/leim
share/emacs/23.0.0/leim/ja-dic
share/emacs/23.0.0/leim/quail
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/calc
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/calendar
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/emacs-lisp
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/emulation
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/erc
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/eshell
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/gnus
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/international
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/language
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/mail
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/mh-e
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/net
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/obsolete
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/play
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/progmodes
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/term
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/textmodes
share/emacs/23.0.0/lisp/url
share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp
share/man/man1

Other 3rd party software emacs-xft requires

(none)