From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Missing files in build Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:10:01 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510686642 14996 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2017 19:10:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:10:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 To: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 20:10:36 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 1eEgbU-0003W1-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:10:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgbb-0005L7-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgb3-0005Kh-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:10:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgay-0006XQ-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:10:09 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:46486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEgay-0006WR-0R; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644D4160663; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:10:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id YCeXN44hiFn0; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A008F160735; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id JUjuLJwVOtaH; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85F1D160638; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:220193 Archived-At: 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.