From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 37527@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:24:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2tyrpxx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162efbd0-5d99-4074-4a4c-e186b0765f70@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:42:10 -0800)
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, michael.albinus@gmx.de, rgm@gnu.org,
> 37527@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:42:10 -0800
>
> On 1/23/20 6:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > if Emacs was installed with the
> > sources, but the original source tree where it was built still exists,
> > where will source-directory point after your changes?
>
> It'll point to the original source tree if you're running Emacs out of
> the build directory. If you're running Emacs out of the installed
> directory, it will point to the installed source tree.
In that case, I will repeat my suggestion to have a separate variable
for the installed sources, because otherwise we are making an
incompatible behavior change.
> > Let's consider builds
> > that aren't meant to be reproducible.
>
> Although we can do that, generally speaking it's better when there's no
> difference between reproducible and irreproducible builds, as that's one
> less thing to worry about when maintaining and debugging.
All the rest being equal, yes. But all the rest is not equal in this
case, because your proposal changes a long-standing behavior in a very
reasonable use case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-23 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:07 bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 8:58 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-27 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 19:59 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-28 5:55 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-28 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 7:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-29 7:09 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-28 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 9:11 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-28 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 13:38 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-03 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 8:52 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-03 16:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-04 8:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-03 21:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-03 22:32 ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-04 1:28 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-04 8:57 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-04 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-06 7:48 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-07 15:17 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-07 19:48 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-08 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08 9:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-08 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 19:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 9:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-21 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 17:48 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-21 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 0:27 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-22 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 8:58 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-23 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 17:42 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-23 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-25 0:47 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-25 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 9:00 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-26 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 18:18 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-26 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 20:09 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-27 21:17 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-28 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 20:06 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-26 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 5:51 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-29 13:02 ` Rohan Hendrik Jotz-Lean
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