From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:24:13 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <89682bf5-de07-b114-90d1-cff9e4d62e5f@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20190926200752.12563-1-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <831rw2l3zu.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="263677"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: 37527@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 09:03:59 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iDkIH-0016N4-8j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 5qQWBH5vl8uX; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5D5160264; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:24:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id xNEMuJ9KK0if; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B9FB160227; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:24:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <831rw2l3zu.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167360 Archived-At: On 9/26/19 10:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Without this change, on typical GNU/Linux distributions >> like Debian, the first button of =E2=80=98C-h f car RET=E2=80=99 does = not >> work because the source code for =E2=80=98car=E2=80=99 is not installe= d. >=20 > It prompts for the source directory, doesn't it? Yes, but that's not really a solution. I may not have a copy of the corre= ct=20 version of the source directory on my system, and it may take me some tim= e to=20 figure out where to get it. It might not be available from gnu.org, for e= xample,=20 because the downstream distributor may have modified the Emacs source.