From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:55:04 -0500 Message-ID: <04b15e73-8a92-76a0-0de5-8531162ac5aa@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20190926200752.12563-1-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <831rw2l3zu.fsf@gnu.org> <89682bf5-de07-b114-90d1-cff9e4d62e5f@cs.ucla.edu> <83tv8yjjaz.fsf@gnu.org> <877e5uglp8.fsf@gmx.de> <83lfuaj7ix.fsf@gnu.org> <878sq9a4tm.fsf@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="33370"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: 37527@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 28 07:56:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iE5iL-0008Uk-R7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id VLWx_F-e5-2P; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC84160260; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:55:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id BFe78rWDucAU; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.147.182] (unknown [12.201.183.3]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4097B1600C2; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:55:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878sq9a4tm.fsf@gmx.de> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167453 Archived-At: On 9/27/19 2:59 PM, Michael Albinus wrote: > But something like the following, which is very rough written, could be > added: Although documenting hacks to work around the problem would be better than nothing, it would not address the problem well. Basically, it would put into an obscure location vague instructions that would have to be adapted by hand in a platform-dependent way, something that would be tricky enough that most users would likely not bother or get wrong. Better would be an approach that just works without additional user effort, such as the approach in the proposed patch.