From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 15260@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ppqums9o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y55ih6g3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:25:32 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> case "$var" in
> *[[^\ -~]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR([Emacs cannot be built or installed in a directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters: $var]) ;;
> esac
>
> This is quite drastic.
I don't think so. The alternative is a cryptic failure during the build stage.
> Do we understand what is the underlying technical reason for the
> build failures?
Something to do with failure to find files, just as it was 6 years ago.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00984.html
The immediate problem for me is a dump failure:
Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Dumping under the name emacs
emacs: Can't open /path/to/non-ascii/src/temacs for reading: No such file
or directory
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 1
Why not make a non-ASCII directory and try it yourself...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-24 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 17:46 bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters Glenn Morris
2013-10-23 20:48 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-24 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-24 18:35 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-10-25 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-25 17:08 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-25 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-25 18:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-25 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-25 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-26 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-26 19:15 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-26 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-27 3:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-27 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-27 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-27 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-27 4:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-27 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-28 0:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-28 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-28 4:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-28 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-28 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-28 22:00 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-29 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-29 1:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-29 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-29 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 1:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 12:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-04 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-04 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 13:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-10-31 21:45 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-01 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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