From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Missing files in build
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:29:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h8twk6b6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1eEgME-0007Ly-8q@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:54:50 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:54:50 -0500
>
> I updated from master a few days ago, copied the whole directory tree,
> and tried to build Emacs there. I got this error message:
>
> charsets directory not found:
> /usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/etc/charsets
> Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
>
> What files are supposed to be in that directory, and what is supposed to put
> them there?
>
> I am NOT going to install the Emacs I build.
> I am going to run it in the build directory.
> That should not require installing any files it depends on.
The error message is misleading regarding the expected location of the
directory because it names a directory that it tries to access as the
last resort. The charsets/ directory used by an in-tree build is
actually in etc/charsets, not under /usr/local/share.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-14 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-14 18:54 Missing files in build Richard Stallman
2017-11-14 19:10 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-20 21:51 ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-14 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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