GNU bug report logs - #2614
20.0.91; coredump if cannot find stuff on startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Marshall, Simon" <Simon.Marshall <at> misys.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:40:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 2614 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: "Marshall\, Simon" <Simon.Marshall <at> misys.com>
Cc: 2614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2614: 20.0.91; coredump if cannot find stuff on startup
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:45:20 -0700 (PDT)

"Marshall, Simon" <Simon.Marshall <at> misys.com> writes:

  > I have built emacs on one Solaris machine under my home directory and attempted
  > to run it on another.  It dies like this:
  > 
  > Warning: arch-independent data dir (/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.91/etc/) does
  > not exist.
  > Error: charsets directory (/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.91/etc/charsets) does
  > not exist.
  > Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
  > Please check your installation!
  > Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  > 
  > I suspect the warning are a bit of a red-herring because they do not existing
  > on the build machine either. 

They should be on the build machine, they are in the emacs source tree,
in emacs/etc/charsets.
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