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24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the directory name

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Subject: bug#17278: closed (Re: 24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the
 directory name)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:10:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#17278: 24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the directory name

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 17278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 17278-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the directory name
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:09:24 -0700

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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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.90; cannot build with a colon in the directory name
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:26:58 +0200

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 :

  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
  type
  Warning: Lisp directory `forever/lisp': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce
  type
  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

In epaths.h, there's a
#define PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH "/home/youngfrog/sources/running-emacs:forever/lisp"

which is used in lread.c to define Vload_path via decode_env_path,
and that makes the problem above.


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

Configured using:
 `configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --enable-checkings 'CFLAGS= -O0 -g3''


-- 
Nico.

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