components/emacs/README
author Mike Sullivan <Mike.Sullivan@Oracle.COM>
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:34:30 -0800
changeset 5289 255be830c2e5
parent 5080 5593e91823f7
permissions -rw-r--r--
Close of build 91.

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NAME:             emacs
VERSION:          24.5
DESCRIPTION:      GNU Emacs editor
LICENSE:          GPLv3
BUGTRAQ:          solaris/utility/emacs
COMMENTS:         

This file contains information about the emacs package within the Userland
consolidation. Along with the comments in the Makefile, it documents any
deviations from standard Userland or emacs practice, as well as miscellaneous
information needed to understand how this component is put together.


- We patch the following changes to the emacs sources:

	calc-forms.patch
	    calc has a flaw that puts the X11 versions of emacs into a
            tight loop. This patch comes from the calc maintainer. The
	    fix was applied to the GNU emacs "master" branch, in September
	    2014. It will be in version 25.1. We should be able to drop
	    this patch when we upgrade to, or past, that release.

	find.patch
	    The rgrep function uses the GNU-specific -path option to the
	    find command. Change the default value for the find-program
	    variable in grep.el to use GNU find.

	jpeg6b_config.patch
	    There is a bug in configure that causes it to believe that
	    libjpeg on Solaris is not version 6b, and then to reject it:

		bug#20332: 24.5; With jpeg-6b configure says
			"WARNING: libjpeg found, bu
		https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/
		        2015-04/msg00424.html

	    This is the patch applied by Paul Eggert to the top of the
	    emacs tree on 15 April 2015. We should be able to drop it in
	    the next emacs update.

- If you patch configure.ac, as with jpeg6b_config.patch, then you need
  a COMPONENT_PREP_ACTION definition in the Makefile in order to get the
  configure script generated during the 'prep' phase. This must issue the
  same commands that would otherwise be generated by the emacs Makefile.
  To get those commands, comment out COMPONENT_PREP_ACTION, and do a
  'gmake clobber; gmake build', capturing the output, and then look for
  'autoconf' in the output.

- The emacs distribution used to have a subdirectory, src/s, which
  contained per-platform header files. We would apply the following
  patches. Please note that the contact information given in the comment
  in the first patch is no longer valid. Current information is found in
  the README file in the top level directory of this workspace:

    sol2-6.h: Enable the use of the native Solaris dldump()

        --- sol2-6.h.~1~        2011-10-17 19:20:46.000000000 -0600
        +++ sol2-6.h    2013-09-23 13:34:26.683033182 -0600
        @@ -2,10 +2,17 @@
         
         #include "sol2-5.h"
         
        -#if 0 /* dldump does not handle all the extensions used by GNU ld.  */
        +/*
        + * Use the Solaris dldump() function to dump emacs, instead of
        + * the generic unexelf code.
        + *
        + * If you encounter a problem using dldump(), please consider sending
        + * a message to the OpenSolaris tools-linking mailing list:
        + *      http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/tools-linking
        + */
        +
         #undef UNEXEC
         #define UNEXEC unexsol.o
        -#endif
         
         /* arch-tag: 71ea3857-89dc-4395-9623-77964e6ed3ca
            (do not change this comment) */

    sol2-5.h: Use the system malloc instead of the GNU malloc:

        --- sol2-5.h.~1~        2011-10-17 19:20:46.000000000 -0600
        +++ sol2-5.h    2013-09-23 13:34:26.732656398 -0600
        @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
         /* This is not always necessary.  Turned off at present for testers to
            identify any problems with gmalloc more accurately.  */
         /* #define SYSTEM_MALLOC */
        +#define SYSTEM_MALLOC
         
         /* There have problems reported with mmap at least on Solaris 2.6
            and 2.7.  For simplicity, let's not use mmap for anything >= 2.5.

  These are now both handled by default by the configure process, and in fact,
  comments from the header files appear to have been carried over. With every
  update, we must verify that these settings stick and remain enabled.

    System Malloc:
    The information output at the end of the configure step verifies this:

        Configured for `x86_64-pc-solaris2.12'.
	...
          Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             no
            (The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration.)

    dldump:
    One could examine the configure script looking for the setting
    "UNEXEC_OBJ=unexsol.o", but it seems easier/better to simply examine
    the final executable:

        % pvs -nos emacs | grep dldump
        emacs - libc.so.1 (SUNW_1.22): dldump;

- Emacs can be built as either 32-bit or 64-bit, depending on the target
  machine. The benefit of a 64-bit emacs is that the size of the files it
  can handle is not limited to 128MB, as it is with the 32-bit version.

  For Solaris, we used to build both versions, using /usr/lib/isaexec to
  run the 64-bit version if possible, and the 32-bit version otherwise. Note
  that this was only done for the emacs binary itself, as there is no
  technical need for 64-bit versions of the ancillary programs that come
  with emacs (etags, emacsclient, etc).

  Fortunately, the vast majority of the files in an emacs tree are identical,
  regardless of the platform and/or word size, which makes this particularly
  easy to do.

  With Solaris 11, all kernels are 64-bit, and we therefore do not need
  the 32-bit executables. As such, we only supply 64-bit emacs binaries now,
  and the use of usr/lib/isaexec has been removed: This cuts the number of
  builds necessary in half, and also the binary package size. It also
  simplifies packaging, and the user's view of /usr/bin/emacs*.

- There are three different toolkit options: None, Athena widgets
  (aka Xaw, or lucid), and gtk. It would be nice to only support gtk,
  but for purposes of minimization and user preference, we supply binaries
  for all three. We follow the Linux model in this regard. The Xaw and no-X
  versions are quite stable from release to release, so this isn't a large
  burden.

- With multiple emacs binaries, there is a need for a generic /usr/bin/emacs
  to exist, which will by default run the "best" version of emacs installed
  on the system. Older versions of Emacs for Solaris, dating back to the 
  original integration into OpenSolaris, used a shell script that contained
  this logic:

        for EXE in emacs-gtk emacs-x emacs-nox; do
                if [ -f /usr/bin/$EXE ]; then
                        exec /usr/bin/$EXE "$@"
                fi
        done

  With the update to Emacs 24.5, we have dropped that script, and /usr/bin/emacs
  is now an IPS mediated link. The admin can therefore use 'pkg set-mediator'
  to establish their preference. The mediator names are the same as those of
  the emacs binaries (emacs-gtk, emacs-x, emacs-nox). By default, the mediated
  link will give the same order as before (gtk, x, nox). The means by which
  this is achieved needs some explanation. The mediated options are by default
  sorted in the order:

      priority, version, implementation-order, implementation

  Where "implementation" is sorted lexically. Lexical sorting puts emacs-gtk
  first, which is what we want, but it puts emacs-nox ahead of emacs-x. I
  played with setting the version or implementation-order values to achieve
  the desired sorting. This works, but as these are not real Emacs versions, 
  the output from 'pkg mediator' is confusing. Instead, we set the priority 
  of emacs-gtk and emacs-x to "vendor", and leave the priority of emacs-nox
  unspecified. Hence, emacs-gtk trumps emacs-x based on lexical sorting, and
  both of them trump emacs-nox based on priority.

- In the past, we built emacs with gcc. The Makefile contained:

    # This code is built with gcc. The primary reason for this is that the
    # configure script has problems using a non-GNU cpp. I am not aware of
    # any reason Sun Studio could not be made to work, but simply made a
    # cost/benefit decision not to pursue it at this time
    COMPILER =      gcc

  With emacs 24.3, I removed this, and find that studio now builds
  emacs without issue. This is something that should be reverified
  with each update.

- When updating to a new version, remember to ensure that the REQUIRED_PACKAGES
  lines in the Makefile are updated to match. Instructions can be found in the
  doc directory at the top of the userland workspace.

  This is currently complicated by additions not needed by the latest
  Solaris builds, which are added in order to be able to build this
  default branch on older releases of Solaris. Be careful in removing
  unnecessary REQUIRED_PACKAGES, as these additions are not tagged in a
  way that makes their purpose clear.

- Emacs is currently configured to use GnuTLS 3 rather than version 2.
  As version 3 is temporarily installed in a non-default manner, this is
  achieved with the following additions to Makefile:

    # The configure script runs the pkg-config command. This allows it to
    # find the non-default GnuTLS v3 library.
    CONFIGURE_ENV +=	PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/$(MACH64)/pkgconfig/gnutls-3
...
    REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/gnutls-3

  These lines will need to be removed/adjusted when version 3 becomes the
  system default.

- We deliver the following packages:

	gnu-emacs - Everything you need to run emacs, except the
	    emacs binaries.

	gnu-emacs-gtk - Binary for the X11 version using the GTK toolkit.

	gnu-emacs-no-x11 - Pure tty emacs binary, built without
	    any X11 linkage or other extra support (i.e. D-bus). This
	    is the most basic emacs possible, ideal for headless server
	    systems.

	gnu-emacs-x11 - Binary for the X11 version using the Athena
	    widget (Xaw) toolkit.

	gnu-emacs-lisp - The compressed LISP files for which compiled
	    versions are delivered by gnu-emacs. These are only needed
	    for emacs developers and those who like to read source code.

  The core gnu-emacs package is required by all of the other packages.
  In turn, gnu-emacs requires at least one of the packages supplying an
  emacs binary to be installed.

- We do not ship any suid/sgid binaries for obvious security reasons.

  We do not install the files under /var/games/emacs. The reason for
  this is that we do not install update-game-score as setuid, and
  therefore the game files are not usable. This the same decision made
  by Debian, among others.