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<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

[...]

> There is a (documented) variable called "source-directory" which seems
> to do that. Try perhaps setting it to an appropriate value.

This variable is documented as such, but it doesn't seem to take the
desired effect.  Other posts mentioned

  find-function-C-source-directory

which does.