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... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no