Re: Missing files in build

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/14/2017 10:54 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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 ran into a similar problem recently, and fixed it in commit 
05aa6d4a68c036602f253fb27c3ca8995533b4c7 dated 2017-11-10. Perhaps 
updating the current master will fix your problem too.

The problem had nothing to do with the directory or its files; it was an 
internal error in Emacs.