[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5492: marked as done (23.1.91; Building Emacs triggers warning about charsets directory)

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> 23.1.91; Building Emacs triggers warning about charsets directory
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> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:20:44 -0500
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> During compilation of files.el, in a tree that was not yet installed, I
> get the following message:
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>     Compiling /home/e/eliz/bzr/emacs/trunk/src/../lisp/files.el
>     Warning: arch-independent data dir (/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1.91/etc/)
>     does not exist.
>     Error: charsets directory (/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1.91/etc/charsets)
>     does not exist.
>     Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
>     Please check your installation!
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> I think this warning should be suppressed in an un-installed
> Emacs.  At the very least, it should be a "Warning", not an "Error".
> For best results, we should look at the charsets directory in the build
> tree in this case.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.91.15 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
>  of 2010-01-29 on fencepost
> configured using `configure  '--without-x''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: nil
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
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> Recent input:
> ESC [ > 0 ; 1 3 6 ; 0 c ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB 
> RET
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> Recent messages:
> ("./src/emacs")
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
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> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt ecomplete rfc822 mml
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> mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader
> gnus-util netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit
> mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug ediff-hook
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> simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files
> text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom
> widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty
> emacs)
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> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:05:01 +0200
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> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:46:44 -0500
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> > Can you figure out why it does not work for you? Do you have any
> > EMACS* environment variables (EMACSDATA, EMACSPATH, etc) set while
> > building?
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> No.
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> > Do you build in a separate directory to the source, or in-place?
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> In-place.
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> > If you run Emacs from the build directory afterwards, what does it
> > think the value of `data-directory' is?
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> It shows the correct value, in the build tree.
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> I cannot reproduce this anymore, anyway: compiling files.el no longer
> produces these messages.
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> It could be that the problem happened because I renamed the parent
> directory before building.  It's possible that the Emacs binary used
> for compiling files.el did not yet pick up all of the new directory
> names.
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> I'm closing this bug.  If I ever see this again, I will reopen with
> more details.
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> Thanks.
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