[debbugs-tracker] bug#17278: closed (24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the directory name)

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> 24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the directory name
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> Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:26:58 +0200
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> I tried to build emacs in a directory named "emacs:forever" (well initially
> it was a directory named emacs-2014-04-16-22:22) and it failed with the
> following error :
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>   if test "no" = "yes"; then \
>   rm -f bootstrap-emacs; \
>     ln temacs bootstrap-emacs; \
>     else \
>       ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap || exit 1; \
>         test "X/sbin/paxctl" = X || /sbin/paxctl -zex emacs; \
>           mv -f emacs bootstrap-emacs; \
>           fi
>           Warning: arch-independent data dir
>   `/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.90/etc/': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce
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>   Warning: Lisp directory `forever/lisp': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce
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>   Error: charsets directory not found:
>   /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.90/etc/charsets
>   Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
>   Please check your installation!
>   make [1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Erreur 1
>   make [1] : on quitte le répertoire «
>   /home/youngfrog/sources/running-emacs:forever/src »
>   make: *** [src] Erreur 2
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> In epaths.h, there's a
> #define PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH "/home/youngfrog/sources/running-emacs:forever/lisp"
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> which is used in lread.c to define Vload_path via decode_env_path,
> and that makes the problem above.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.3.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2014-04-16 on geodiff-mac3
> System Description:     Gentoo Base System release 2.2
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> Configured using:
>  `configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --enable-checkings 'CFLAGS= -O0 -g3''
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> -- 
> Nico.
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0
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> Thanks for reporting that.  We can't support directory names containing 
> ":", due to the syntax for directory paths, but we can output a better 
> message when building Emacs, to warn you about the problem, so I did 
> that in Emacs trunk bzr 117372.
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