Re: Carbon Emacs won't start when installed in certain paths

[David Reitter]

On 9 Apr 2007, at 20:35, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> So try it with -Q.

OK, same story, see below.

> This said, I wouldn't be surprised if building (and/or installing)  
> doesn't
> work correctly in a directory whose complete filename contains  
> spaces and/or
> non-ascii letters.

Spaces are definitely fine.

> Among other things, I seem to remember a problem where some  
> hardcoded file
> names are created at dump time before the utf-8 coding system  
> exists, so
> when they get used later on, they may suffer some problems.  Please  
> try and
> diagnosticate as much as you can, and we'll then add a note about  
> it in
> PROBLEMS (at least, if that's the problem I'm thinking of, the  
> solution is
> not immediate).

When started with -nw, loading of "encoded-kb" fails, yet Emacs  
starts up. It is marginally usable - files can be opened (find-file)  
just fine from the path with the non-ASCII characters. However,  
calling "load-file" manually won't work (with one of those paths).
In a successfully started Emacs (-Q), files from the special path can  
be opened (find-file) and sourced (load-file) perfectly, even though  
the *Completions* buffer and the entry in *Messages* will not display  
the right characters. I've tried this with a directory named "Täst",  
which shows up in Emacs as in the attached screenshot.

lucy:/Applications dr$ mv Emacs.app Pour\ De\314\201veloppement/
lucy:/Applications dr$ cd Pour\ De\314\201veloppement/
lucy:/Applications/Pour Développement dr$ ls
Aquamacs Emacs Yesterday.app Emacs.app
lucy:/Applications/Pour Développement dr$ open Emacs.app/
lucy:/Applications/Pour Développement dr$ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
Emacs -Q
Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/local/libexec/emacs/22.0.96/ 
powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/) does not exist.
Warning: arch-independent data dir (/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.96/ 
etc/) does not exist.
Cannot open load file: term/mac-win

Start with -nw:

(Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -debug-init)
set-keyboard-coding-system: Cannot open load file: encoded-kb