Building on Panther, Dylib Support on X Window

Friday, October 31, 2003

I've been running Panther since yesterday so I can now try out a few things.

Emacs builds and works fine with the --with-carbon --without-x ./configure option.

Since Panther installs texinfo 4.6, it is no longer necessary to install texinfo before building Emacs.

To build ispell, it's still necessary to install the GNU textutils first. But now local.h.samp can be used (as local.h) as is.

Terminal.app sets the TERM environment variable to xterm-color and seems to correctly emulate such a terminal. So Emacs will run with color in terminal mode by default.

Nozomu Ando has contributed a patch to unexmacosx.c that allows Emacs to be built to run under X Window in OS X using dynamic libraries (static X11 libraries used to be necessary). This patch has just been checked in to CVS.

So «out of the box», Emacs can now be configured to use the Carbon API by saying:

./configure --with-carbon --without-x

and use X Window by saying:

./configure --with-x --without-carbon

without any additional steps.

The pty bug seems to be indeed gone.