From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 15803@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:39:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835z8lk85y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1r97pbz.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:07:12 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 15803@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:07:12 +0200
>
> > Please try building Emacs from a pristine tarball or a clean
> > repository in a directory with non-ASCII characters, under a
> > non-UTF-8, non-C locale. If that works, I think this is good to go.
>
> All the tools under Linux are so utf-8-focused these days... let's
> see... I first, under a utf-8 locale created the directory "émacs",
> then converted it to 8859-1:
No, please create the directory with non-ASCII name _after_ switching
the locale to Latin-1.
> And then I build Emacs there, and it seems to work fine. Then I apply
> the patch and say "make:
>
> Loading /home/larsi/src/emacs/�*macs/lisp/subdirs.el (source)...
> >>Error occurred processing ../lisp/international/mule-cmds.el: File is missing (("Opening input file" "No such file or directory" "/home/larsi/src/emacs/�*macs/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el"))
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:279: ../lisp/international/mule-cmds.elc] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:784: ../lisp/international/mule-cmds.elc] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/larsi/src/emacs/�*macs/src'
>
> So that fails pretty much immediately...
>
> OK, let's try a make bootstrap...
>
> And now building Emacs works fine. So it seems like a make bootstrap is
> necessary after applying the patch.
>
> And starting Emacs works fine.
>
> But "make check" fails miserably:
>
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:165: src/eval-tests.elc] Error 1
> ELC src/font-tests.elc
> >>Error occurred processing src/fileio-tests.el: File is missing (("Doing chmod" "No such file or directory" "/home/larsi/src/emacs/\301\203*macs/test/src/fileio-tests.elc7HRcu0"))
>
> So...
This all happens because the directory name doesn't correspond to the
locale. You need to create the directory in the 8859-1 locale.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-04 18:45 bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days? Glenn Morris
2017-12-01 1:52 ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-01 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-05 0:35 ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-08 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-12 1:38 ` Glenn Morris
2020-09-09 13:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-09 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-10 13:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-10 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-11 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 11:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 12:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 14:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 14:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 8:47 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-12 11:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-09 13:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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