Missing files in build

Missing files in build

[Richard Stallman]

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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.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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Re: Missing files in build

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/14/2017 10:54 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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 ran into a similar problem recently, and fixed it in commit 
05aa6d4a68c036602f253fb27c3ca8995533b4c7 dated 2017-11-10. Perhaps 
updating the current master will fix your problem too.

The problem had nothing to do with the directory or its files; it was an 
internal error in Emacs.

Re: Missing files in build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

Re: Missing files in build

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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  > I ran into a similar problem recently, and fixed it in commit 
  > 05aa6d4a68c036602f253fb27c3ca8995533b4c7 dated 2017-11-10. Perhaps 
  > updating the current master will fix your problem too.

That worked -- thanks.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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