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USING CONFIGURE
===============
0) If you get VM from the revision control, the ./configure script is
not included. You have to run "autoconf" to create it.
1) Select your emacs flavor, this is the option --with-emacs and its
default is emacs (GNU Emacs). Choose a prefix for the installation
with --prefix, by default /usr/local.
The default locations are as follows:
a) GNU Emacs: lisp files goto ${prefix}/share/emacs/site-lisp and
info files to ${prefix}/info (overridable with --with-lispdir=...
and --infodir=...)
b) XEmacs: lisp files goto ${prefix}/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/vm and
info files to ${prefix}/lib/xemacs/site-packages/info, (overridable
with --with-infodir=... and --infodir=...)
ATTENTION: Files byte-compiled with GNU Emacs are NOT COMPATIBLE with the
XEmacs and you may experience strange problems during startup when doing
so. Even between GNU Emacs versions there might be problems! Thus you must
ensure you are configuring with --with-emacs=xemacs when installing VM for
XEmacs! Also if you want to use BBDB features please specify the path
to its source files with the -with-other-dirs option.
a) GNU Emacs users run:
./configure --with-other-dirs=/absolute/path/to/bbdb/lisp
b) XEmacs+BBDB users run:
./configure --with-emacs=xemacs --with-other-dirs=/path/to/bbdb/lisp
It is currently not possible to build VM in a separate directory.
2) Compile everything by running:
make
You may ignore warnings, however error messages indicate that some modules
(partially) will not work, i.e. if other library files are missing or you
are running GNU Emacs.
3) Installing the files
a) The manual way
Add the "lisp" and "info" directories in the VM built directory to the
Emacs search paths, e.g. if you have built vm in ~/vm add the following
to your ~/.emacs resp. ~/.xemacs/init.el.
(add-to-list 'load-path
(expand-file-name "~/vm/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list
(expand-file-name "~/vm/info"))
GNU Emacs users, have to load the autoloads by hand by adding
(require 'vm-autoloads)
to their ~/.emacs.
XEmacs: You are lucky nothing to do for you!
b) make install
Which might work, but might not work as most distros have their own
directory layout.
4) You are now ready to use VM. C-h i should start up the Emacs Info
system and if you have installed the Info documents properly you can
use the online documentation to teach yourself how to use VM.
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