From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:25:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83y55ih6g3.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382639175 21923 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2013 18:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15260@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 24 20:26:18 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 1VZPbt-0007s0-Fe for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:26:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbs-0004Vc-Up for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60042) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbk-0004VL-Tt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbe-0000Wl-VH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbe-0000WY-Sg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbd-00067q-RO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:26:01 +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=B15260.138263915623535 (code B ref 15260); Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15260) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Oct 2013 18:25:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41590 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbW-00067W-VN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:39543) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZPbT-00067C-1a for 15260@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MV600E00R65X800@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 15260@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:25:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MV600E76R6VUA30@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:25:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il 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:79602 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:48:42 -0400 > > Glenn Morris wrote: > > > If it cannot be made to work, configure should abort with an error in > > such cases. [non-ascii directories] > > Done. Leaving this open as a wishlist to make it work. dnl configure sets LC_ALL=C early on, so this range should work. 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. Do we understand what is the underlying technical reason for the build failures? The bug reports didn't give any explanations, only the fact that moving to a pure-ASCII directory fixed the problem.