GNU bug report logs - #909
not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 909 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Subject: bug#909: not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:09:44 -0400

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> It's an external condition that Emacs has no control over (it could be a
> temporary NFS problem, for example).  Just aborting does not give any
> clue what is wrong.

I meant: after a helpful, descriptive error message is printed, should
Emacs continue to run, or is this problem so severe that it should
refuse to start?
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