From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Tim Daly Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6401: Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:34:17 -0800 Message-ID: <4B5357E6-24F4-402C-B631-C8AA60C39000@tenkan.org> References: <3ECA75E7-611F-4D2A-B6B9-C0FEC96D1070@hofland.no> <822479C3-8B02-4BD7-AB56-C5D7DD31D9D6@tenkan.org> <2cmxboiol1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321983654 30240 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2011 17:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6401@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 18:40:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuKv-0007pL-T6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuKv-0003RA-Fq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuKs-0003Qm-D6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuKn-00027w-VH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:40:46 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuKn-00027s-Mt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuM5-0007dw-Px for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:42:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Tim Daly Jr." Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:42:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6401 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6401-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6401.132198370329335 (code B ref 6401); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6401) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Nov 2011 17:41:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuLl-0007d5-Q4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:41:42 -0500 Original-Received: from tenkan.org ([216.114.78.229]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuFx-0007Sf-AY for 6401@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.255] (c-24-5-122-5.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.5.122.5]) by tenkan.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4BB2416F4062; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:34:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:41:39 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:42:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54170 Archived-At: On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > I'm ignorant of all this. What do child processes of Emacs need these > variables for? Can you give me one example of something I might want to > run inside an emacs M-x shell buffer that needs to know EMACSDATA? It's > not set in shells spawned by a GNU/Linux build. > > Also, don't you get a clear error about the charsets directory not being > found if EMACSDATA is wrong (from init_charset), rather than a failue to > load some particular charset? Which makes me think this is probably not > the problem the OP was having anyway... It's a warning: dir_warning ("Error: charsets directory (%s) does not exist.\n\ Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.\n\ Please check your installation!\n", tempdir); /* TODO should this be a fatal error? (Bug#909) */ what actually stopped my build was an error about loading that JIS charset. -tim