From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:06 +0200 Message-ID: <878sqannil.fsf@igel.home> References: <7ba0e94a-6256-c425-aaf8-7ee8822216a7@cs.ucla.edu> <8336gil439.fsf@gnu.org> <1cb04f23-5fa1-c866-41a8-60156d15936d@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="120652"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 10:38:19 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 1iDllb-000VIK-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:38:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47964 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iDllZ-0003lW-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48111) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iDlkb-0002aj-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iDlka-0001HJ-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:34278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iDlkX-000160-Dk; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46flXP0C08z1rynx; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46flXN6ydrz1qqkK; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MfByN2v_WDEh; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: NZbMu6BomNeFpE6maR1+9aCt3mJbH0u7mT/8RhJQq4NokXw+zLz5c/krS3el8sBI Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-46-244-174-11.dynamic.mnet-online.de [46.244.174.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 70B092C0197; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Psychoanalysis?? I thought this was a nude rap session!!! In-Reply-To: <1cb04f23-5fa1-c866-41a8-60156d15936d@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:13:15 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.18.0.10 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:240324 Archived-At: On Sep 26 2019, Paul Eggert wrote: > We need it because the feature in question is not working on Debian, or on > Red Hat, or on any other GNU/Linux distribution that I know of. 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 when the same home directory is shared by multiple Emacs > versions (which is common for me, at least). Emacs should be taught to find its sources in the debug source directory, where emacs-debugsource (or its equivalent) installs them. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."