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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:13:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbm3is9eg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EAFCC26-4B10-4133-9B5E-C0BE117A5455@me.com

> Unlike the Lisp files, the C files are not targeted and placed outside of
> the source distribution by `make install`.  It seems.

Indeed, the C source files are not expected to be present in an
Emacs installation.  They're only expected to be present on the machine
where Emacs was compiled.

Part of the idea is that, if you're not compiling Emacs yourself,
accessing the C source code is much less useful.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-11 11:35 missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Van Ly
2019-02-11 13:03 ` tomas
2019-02-11 13:56   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-02-11 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-02-11 15:16   ` missing src/ directory for eval.c Michael Albinus
2019-02-11 16:44     ` tomas
2019-02-11 20:51   ` Robert Thorpe
2019-02-11 20:54     ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 22:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12  0:01       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-12  4:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12  5:16           ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 14:17 ` missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Yuri Khan
2019-02-11 20:45   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 22:01   ` Van L
2019-02-12  0:04     ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-12 12:21       ` missing src/ directory for eval.c Van L

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