bug#2614: 20.0.91; coredump if cannot find stuff on startup

[Marshall, Simon]

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.  Unfortunately, I cannot debug emacs on the run machine.  However, pstack tells me:

core 'core' of 8466:    pemacs -Q
 feb46398 kill     (b, 0, ffbd9928, 1, 38d801, 370c00) + 8
 feb45924 __sighndlr (b, 0, ffbd9928, fb4b0, 0, 1) + c
 feb3a868 call_user_handler (b, 0, 0, 0, ff3a2000, ffbd9928) + 3b8
 0009a134 decode_char (ffbfdf28, 0, 0, ffbd9c68, 477540, 8e92a2) + 538
 000b2148 decode_coding (ffbfdf28, 374800, 37f000, 379800, 375400, ffbe9d6c) + e4
 000b4088 decode_coding_gap (ffbfdf28, ffff937e, ffff937e, 40020000, 38d801, 40000000) + dc
 0012de1c Finsert_file_contents (4, 88bd53, 0, 36410, 370c00, 38d801) + 87c
 00167e20 Ffuncall (6, 3a2109, 370c00, 37e800, ffbfe1e4, 1) + 454
 0019cc34 Fbyte_code (ffbfe1e0, 370c00, 4c, 33dee8, 3fffff, 370c00) + b08
 00167784 funcall_lambda (21c3b4, 4, 4, 37f000, 0, 370c00) + 178
 00167c14 Ffuncall (5, 3fa999, 370c00, 37e800, ffbfe3a0, 4) + 248
 00167fe8 call4    (3fa999, 88bdc3, 88bdc3, 38d831, 38d831, 375c00) + 1c
 0018b288 Fload    (370c00, 38d831, 38d831, 4, 0, 377c00) + 6a4
 00167e20 Ffuncall (6, 3b4e89, 370c00, 37e800, ffbfe694, 4) + 454
 0019cc34 Fbyte_code (ffbfe690, 370c00, 34, 33dee8, 3fffff, 370c00) + b08
 00167784 funcall_lambda (244914, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0) + 178
 00167970 apply_lambda (244914, 38d801, 1, 0, 0, 0) + b4
 00167008 Feval    (37e800, 1665a0, 1666c8, 0, ff3f42e8, 0) + 240
 001665ec internal_condition_case (101664, 39ec91, 105438, 0, 0, 0) + f0
 00105168 top_level_1 (370c00, 1666d0, 0, 0, 408e30, 37ec00) + 30
 001666e0 internal_catch (39d169, 105138, 38d801, 398000, 0, 0) + b8
 00105230 command_loop (377400, 38d801, 398000, 1, 0, 0) + 80
 001055c0 recursive_edit_1 (439000, 38d801, 0, ffbfebec, ffbfed7c, 2b) + 64
 00105720 Frecursive_edit (0, 377c00, ff9fab3e, fffffffe, 80808080, 1010101) + fc
 000faa6c main     (0, ffbfed5c, 37f400, 37f000, 1de3b0, 0) + b20
 000493a0 _start   (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c

In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, Motif Version 2.1.0)
 of 2009-02-26 on risksun2
Windowing system distributor `Hummingbird Ltd.', version 11.0.100015
configured using `configure  '--x-includes=/usr/openwin/include:/usr/dt/include:/usr/local/include:/usr/local/X11/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/X11/lib' '--with-x-toolkit=motif' '--with-jpeg=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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