From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Missing files in build Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:29:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83h8twk6b6.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510687803 29817 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2017 19:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 20:30:00 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEguE-0007QI-4f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:29:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEguL-0002sB-D8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgti-0002rt-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgtf-0005VL-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgtf-0005VF-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4159 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgtW-0001hl-S5; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:29:16 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:54:50 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220194 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > 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.