Subject: Re: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:15 -0400

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...