From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:19:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83v9tejjdv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7ba0e94a-6256-c425-aaf8-7ee8822216a7@cs.ucla.edu> <8336gil439.fsf@gnu.org> <1cb04f23-5fa1-c866-41a8-60156d15936d@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="60533"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 09:20:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1iDkYG-000FdP-Hg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:20:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47460 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iDkYE-000693-Kv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 03:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35195) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iDkY1-00068g-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 03:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iDkXy-0001eJ-Js; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 03:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4026 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iDkXv-0007XN-0o; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 03:20:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <1cb04f23-5fa1-c866-41a8-60156d15936d@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:13:15 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240323 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:13:15 -0700 > > It's all very well to say that the user can change the > source-directory variable to some random location and then download > a correct copy of the right version of the Emacs source to that > location, but that can be a tricky thing to do correctly Can you explain in more detail why is this tricky? AFAIR, Emacs prompts for the directory in this case, and all the user needs to do is type its file name at the prompt. > If master is that close to a release, perhaps it's time to create an > emacs-27 branch. I will do that as soon as possible, yes.