From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:57:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834mugvw5w.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbmvufpy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415127485 28821 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2014 18:58:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 18:58:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Alexander Shukaev Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 04 19:57:58 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 1XljIk-00014W-0M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:57:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XljIj-0002Fy-Jr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XljIZ-0002FL-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:57:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XljIX-0006Mj-4i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XljIW-0006MW-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XljIV-0006Gv-Qi; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:57:43 -0500 X-Spook: Blowpipe Lon Horiuchi militia AMW Albanian $400 million X-Ran: v(R?yO+r~T{EsLq=D?p"jsr2?t(#Kn-'PG%.wdi]]DmatW]R$OAw^'SR8u=?*4Tt`a"=7* X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Alexander Shukaev's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2014 19:39:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:100746 Archived-At: Alexander Shukaev wrote: > Adding "src/emacs" and supporting it by default is just the right > thing to do. I really don't think it is. The only thing I have ever seen use /usr/src on GNU/Linux machines is the Linux kernel and other related items where the sources are needed for compiling kernel modules. I have never seen a single program install its sources there for information purposes only, which is what this would be. So I would not like Emacs to accept a patch to do that. IMO the only possible location for an optional `install-source' target to install to is share/emacs/VERSION/src. I don't expect any pre-built binary package of Emacs to ever use such a feature, but I would not have a problem with such a patch.