From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:26:55 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ioit205s.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <834mugvw5w.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbmvufpy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415197825 23449 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2014 14:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:30:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 15:30:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm1bH-0001E6-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:30:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm1bG-0001Q7-Lw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:30:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net LQ3F8RjDfiv6W0AdJCs73bL9ewPamUjZTKJHfEwYCZZ7vRXDLm9AMWbXO0DMO57ydqCDNrlCFL5+ME6oOpuSvA== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="qq4GI8W/H8e+dwbPUzdUVjm+0noOmaG4K5c1mXnpgY334rpHWsp1Kv4t8fyw4jtHmu63M3Pq6yUNqzzMOzEmuvEencRfT7fgjoXJxcM9fvJonikaDcT6ZkbzHZuv3QxS"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:uj6uHldaLeGX38HTmQvzYm1sUC8= sha1:jW2+oig3AVZ8Sfb+pHjx6R0c4I8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208489 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100766 Archived-At: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:43:04 +0700 Yuri Khan wrote: YK> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Alexander Shukaev wrote: >> Perhaps you should look into "/usr/local/src". This is the place where >> package managers can fetch the so-called "source packages", those which >> contain only the source code. YK> Nonsense. The /usr/local tree is, by definition, off-limits for YK> package managers. YK> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY Homebrew on Mac OS X happily uses /usr/local. In particular I can find the sources of any package I build in /usr/local/Cellar, which has been convenient several times for non-Emacs purposes (with Emacs, as a developer, I check it out to a local directory so I don't use its Homebrew source directory much). I hope that helps. Ted