From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `C-h f' doesn't show file where function comes from Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:22:11 +0200 Message-ID: <48C275F3.2050201@gmx.at> References: <48C0DE54.9030201@gmx.at> <48C0EB00.3020908@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220703903 30343 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 12:25:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 14:25:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbwrI-0006kC-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbwqJ-0000fr-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbwqE-0000fQ-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbwqC-0000dm-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42914 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbwqB-0000db-JC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48441) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kbwq9-0005Yq-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Sep 2008 12:24:32 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-38-100.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.38.100]) [62.47.38.100] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 06 Sep 2008 14:24:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18HnH8eX/AHxN0HidMVQHVX+qbCifPKdcLfjz02tM S5QDet83Itoab/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103587 Archived-At: > Hm, it relates to where to install Emacs? It _may_ relate to where you install Emacs. > Ok, I checked out > the trunk in a certain directory, copied it to /tmp/yamaoka by > performing > > tar cf - emacs| (cd /tmp/yamaoka; tar xf -) > > and did `make bootstrap' there. (I.e., I made no changes in > the files and directories that were checked out.) The configure > options for building Emacs were: > > --verbose --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-xim > > And then `make install' installed Emacs to the directories: > > /usr/local/bin/ > /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/ > /usr/local/libexec/emacs/23.0.60/ > /usr/local/info/ The behavior you observe might be related to my recent changes. Could you please try to edebug the function `find-lisp-object-file-name' in help-fns.el and find out why it fails to return an absolute filename for your settings. > Note that /usr/local/ and /local/ are identical in my system > (/usr/local/ is a symlink to /local/). If symbolic links are the cause of the problem I would have to chase them in a number of cases. In that case it might be simpler to find out why this worked before my fix. Thanks in advance, martin.