* configure.ac: It seems _installing_ in non-ASCII is ok, not building.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7d8cb8815fd..2c1123f3a0b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -74,23 +74,19 @@ dnl --program-transform-name options
 AC_ARG_PROGRAM
 
 dnl http://debbugs.gnu.org/15260
-dnl I think we have to check, eg, both exec_prefix and bindir,
-dnl because the latter by default is not yet expanded, but the user
-dnl may have specified a value for it via --bindir.
 dnl Note that abs_srcdir and abs_builddir are not yet defined. :(
 
-dnl "`cd \"$srcdir\" is not portable.
+dnl "`cd \"$srcdir\"`" is not portable.
 dnl See autoconf manual "Shell Substitutions":
 dnl "There is just no portable way to use double-quoted strings inside
 dnl double-quoted back-quoted expressions (pfew!)."
 temp_srcdir=`cd "$srcdir"; pwd`
 
-for var in "`pwd`" "$temp_srcdir" "$prefix" "$exec_prefix" \
-    "$datarootdir" "$bindir" "$datadir" "$sharedstatedir" "$libexecdir"; do
+for var in "`pwd`" "$temp_srcdir"; do
 
   dnl configure sets LC_ALL=C early on, so this range should work.
   case "$var" in
-    *[[^\ -~]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR([Emacs cannot be built or installed in a directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters: $var]) ;;
+    *[[^\ -~]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR([Emacs cannot be built in a directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters: $var]) ;;
   esac
 
 done