Re: Missing files in build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:54:50 -0500
> 
> I updated from master a few days ago, copied the whole directory tree,
> and tried to build Emacs there.  I got this error message:
> 
> charsets directory not found:
> /usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/etc/charsets
> Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
> 
> What files are supposed to be in that directory, and what is supposed to put
> them there?
> 
> I am NOT going to install the Emacs I build.
> I am going to run it in the build directory.
> That should not require installing any files it depends on.

The error message is misleading regarding the expected location of the
directory because it names a directory that it tries to access as the
last resort.  The charsets/ directory used by an in-tree build is
actually in etc/charsets, not under /usr/local/share.