Subject: bug#53038: 28.0.50; problem building

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:55:12 +0100

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:44:08 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:
>
>     >> From: [email-masked]
>     >> Cc: [email-masked]
>     >> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:44:14 +0100
>     >> 
>     >> > When the build fails, does the file lisp/international/emoji.el exist?
>     >> 
>     >> It does exist, yes.
>
>     Eli> So the problem seems to be with finding files via load-path.
>
>     Eli> My suggestion is to run the failing command manually, and if it also
>     Eli> fails, run it under a debugger to see why Emacs cannot find an
>     Eli> existing Lisp file.
>
> Looking through the build log, $PWD and the paths reported by the
> build look different. Is there some symlinking or NFS-mounting going
> on?

There is:
ls -la ~|grep build
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 joakim joakim            9 Oct  8  2019 build -> /mnt/fast

To rule out this being a problem I went to the target of the symlink,
and did maintainer-clean, and make again. The problem persists.

For fun I can try on a completely different disk.

> Robert
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Joakim Verona
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