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23.0.90; emacs bootstrap under AIX hangs at lisp/international/characters.el

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Message #61 received at 2403 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Harald Maier <harald <at> maierh.de>, 2403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2403: 23.0.90;	emacs bootstrap under AIX hangs at lisp/international/characters.el
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:11:54 +0200

> From: Harald Maier <harald <at> maierh.de>
> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:20:52 +0100
> Cc: 
> 
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> writes:
> 
> > Another idea: there is a bug being discussed on the list about loading
> > international/characters.
> > Can you please try removing this line:
> >  (load "international/characters")
> > from emacs/lisp/loadup.el
> > and see if that helps?
> 
> Yes, that helps and byte compiling of all the other lisp packages seems
> fine.
> [...]
> but then if
> I start emacs I get the following startup error in the function
> 
> "set_fontset_font":
> 
>   Invalid script or charset name: latin

This is expected, since lisp/international/characters.el is not
loaded.

Can you try loading it at startup time?  Something like this:

  emacs -Q -l characters.el

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