From: Chong Yidong Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:10:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add "Installing to a directory with non-ASCII characters in the name fails". X-Git-Tag: emacs-22.1~59 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c06422c157c1209cd6bc231e26c62cdb1c8c98b;p=emacs.git Add "Installing to a directory with non-ASCII characters in the name fails". --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 00bddb791c2..00dedc0c363 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ will run it under. For details, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344 - * Crash bugs ** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog. @@ -2810,6 +2809,14 @@ with spaces in the value, eg --enable-locallisppath='/path/with\ spaces'. Using directory paths with spaces is not supported at this time: you must re-configure without using spaces. +*** Installing to a directory with non-ASCII characters in the name fails. + +Installation may fail, or the Emacs executable may not start +correctly, if a directory name containing non-ASCII characters is used +as a `configure' argument (e.g. `--prefix'). The problem can also +occur if a non-ASCII directory is specified in the EMACSLOADPATH +envvar. + *** On Solaris, use GNU Make when installing an out-of-tree build The Emacs configuration process allows you to configure the