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Muse may be compiled and installed on your machine.
This is an optional step, since Emacs Lisp source code does not necessarily have to be byte-compiled. Byte-compilation may yield a very slight speed increase.
A working copy of Emacs or XEmacs is needed in order to compile Emacs Muse. By default, the program that is installed with the name emacs will be used.
If you want to use the xemacs binary to perform the compilation, you would need to edit Makefile.defs in the top-level directory as follows. You can put either a full path to an Emacs or XEmacs binary or just the command name, as long as it is in the PATH.
EMACS = xemacs SITEFLAG = -no-site-file
Running make
in the top-level directory should compile the Muse
source files in the lisp directory, and generate an autoloads
file in lisp/muse-autoloads.el.
Muse may be installed into your file hierarchy by doing the following.
Edit the Makefile.defs file so that ELISPDIR points to where you want the source and compiled Muse files to be installed and INFODIR indicates where to put the Muse manual. As mentioned earlier, you will want to edit EMACS and SITEFLAG as shown in the Compilation section if you are using XEmacs.
If you are installing Muse on a Debian or Ubuntu system, you might want to change the value of INSTALLINFO as specified in Makefile.defs.
If you wish to install Muse to different locations than the defaults specify, edit Makefile.defs accordingly.
Run make
as a normal user.
Run make install
as the root user if you have chosen installation
locations that require root permissions.