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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...





  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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