From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:15 -0400 Message-ID: <81ppqums9o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83y55ih6g3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382639766 28940 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2013 18:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15260@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 24 20:36:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPlR-0007pw-SA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPlR-0006zs-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPlM-0006xI-0T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPlK-0005af-PJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPlK-0005aX-MX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPlK-0006OG-AA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15260 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15260-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15260.138263971924503 (code B ref 15260); Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15260) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Oct 2013 18:35:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41605 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPkc-0006N8-KC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:57032 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPka-0006Mz-NV for 15260@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPkZ-0003is-F0; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:15 -0400 X-Spook: smuggle Maple ASIO Waco, Texas Operation Iraqi Freedom X-Ran: 2N$:"tB-ofI4W'a|E#Ve!n36Jw"qj,@AT.`cP%Me8kkpU%&Zie]-zoKA6{jXj7#KZ8YFU} X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83y55ih6g3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:25:32 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79603 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > case "$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...