From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sqannil.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cb04f23-5fa1-c866-41a8-60156d15936d@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:13:15 -0700")
On Sep 26 2019, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> We need it because the feature in question is not working on Debian, or on
> Red Hat, or on any other GNU/Linux distribution that I know of. It's all
> very well to say that the user can change the source-directory variable to
> some random location and then download a correct copy of the right version
> of the Emacs source to that location, but that can be a tricky thing to do
> correctly when the same home directory is shared by multiple Emacs
> versions (which is common for me, at least).
Emacs should be taught to find its sources in the debug source
directory, where emacs-debugsource (or its equivalent) installs them.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:37 Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:13 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 4:03 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 17:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-27 22:45 ` Fu Yuan
2019-09-28 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-28 2:14 ` Michael Rohleder
2019-09-27 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-28 2:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-27 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 15:47 ` David Ringo
2019-09-27 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-09-27 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-09-28 18:19 Angelo Graziosi
2019-09-29 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
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