Re: Cygwin emacs -- apparent version config issue with 24.4 to 24.5

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 4/16/2015 7:04 PM, Joe Morris wrote:
> I just did a new install of Cygwin and its emacs using the windows 64 intaller,
> and when I ran emacs from the Cygwin command line I got these errors:
>
> $ emacs
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir
> `/usr/libexec/emacs/24.5/x86_64-unknown-cygwin/': No such file or directory
> Warning: arch-independent data dir `/usr/share/emacs/24.5/etc/': No such file or
> directory
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/24.5/lisp': No such file or directory
> Error: charsets directory not found:
> /usr/share/emacs/24.5/etc/charsets
> Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
> Please check your installation!
>
> After I did
>
> $ mv /usr/share/emacs/24.4/ /usr/share/emacs/24.5/
>
> then emacs worked ok. Seems like perhaps the path didn't get updated somewhere
> from 24.4 to 24.5?

I think something must have gone wrong with your installation.  The paths are 
correct in the tarball, as you can see at

  https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/emacs/emacs-24.5-1

I suggest you reinstall emacs.

Ken

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