Re: Emacs doesn't compile with UTF-8 locales

[Nikolaus Rath]

* Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> | Recursive load: "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
>> "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
>> "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
>> "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
>> "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
>> "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/disp-table.el"
>> | make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
>> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp'
>> | make: *** [bootstrap-lisp] Error 2
>> `----
>>
>> After switching to a standard latin-* locale i was able to compile
>> without problems.
> 
> Some days ago I encountered the same problem; I solved it excluding the
> previous emacs from PATH; this work for me:
> 
>     PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin make bootstrap
> 
> But this did not:
> 
>     PATH=/gnu/bin:$PATH make bootstrap
> 
> My devel emacs binaries sit in /gnu/bin .

Maybe. I can't test this, because my emacs resides in
/usr/bin. Removing that from PATH results in a missing gcc etc.

But i think it is a bug in any case.

   --Nikolaus