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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:00:25 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>   emacs = EMACSLOADPATH="$(abs_lisp)" LC_ALL=C "$(EMACS)" $(EMACSOPT)
>                                       ^^^^^^^^
>
> Does anyone know or remember why we set LC_ALL=C while running
> commands in lisp/ (and the same in leim/)? 

FWIW, if I change that to use LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 and bootstrap (after
also fixing cl--gensym-counter to a non-random default), all the
resulting *.elc files are identical to the LC=ALL=C case.