Subject: bug#6401:

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:01:31 -0400

Sigve Berge Hofland wrote:

> The same error occurs in version 23.3:
>
>> Saving file ..../emacs-23.3/lisp/loaddefs.el...
>> Failure in loading charset map: JISX0208
>> make[2]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
>> make[1]: *** [..../emacs-23.3/src/../lisp/loaddefs.el] Error 2

I'm sorry that you can't build Emacs.
I doubt the following is going to help, but:

It looks like you manage to build an emacs binary, but then fail
compiling some files.

1) Does the bootstrap-emacs start?

./src/bootstrap-emacs -Q 

2) If it starts, what is the value of `charset-map-path'?

Does the specified directory exist? Is it readable?
Does it contain JISX0208.map? Is it readable?

Failing that, you might try putting a breakpoint in
load_charset_map_from_file in charset.c to see if you can see why it
fails.