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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters |
Date: | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:15 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > case "$var" in > *[[^\ -~]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR([Emacs cannot be built or installed in a > directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters: $var]) ;; > esac > > This is quite drastic. I don't think so. The alternative is a cryptic failure during the build stage. > Do we understand what is the underlying technical reason for the > build failures? Something to do with failure to find files, just as it was 6 years ago. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00984.html The immediate problem for me is a dump failure: Finding pointers to doc strings... Finding pointers to doc strings...done Dumping under the name emacs emacs: Can't open /path/to/non-ascii/src/temacs for reading: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 1 Why not make a non-ASCII directory and try it yourself...
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