From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:13:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3EAFCC26-4B10-4133-9B5E-C0BE117A5455@me.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="255973"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 15:14:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCLl-0014SM-0c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:14:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCLj-0001RZ-W9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCLW-0001R6-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCLV-0001eB-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:14:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50820 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCLU-0001MB-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCKu-0013PA-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:13:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:X/pejK3p7ShtXwsOt6XYMJCEs88= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119340 Archived-At: > 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