From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:14:40 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4a5xzvb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFXAjY63zpPV5-Mzr84vd=Hd_6MZoCc0WwJy5dfC8Uo0oSRy0A@mail.gmail.com> (Wilfred Hughes's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:41:08 +0000")
Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk> writes:
> Currently, most (all?) linux distros package Emacs without C sources. As a
> result, find-function does not work for any functions written in C. Users who
> have compiled Emacs themselves have the source, but most don't.
>
> I would love to see Emacs include its C code in /usr/share. In principle this
> would just be a change to the build script, and I've attached a patch that
> would work.
>
> Does this seem reasonable? Is there some configure flag that does this
> already?
Including the source in /usr/share for a program would be highly
unusual. And if you want to hack on the C bits of Emacs, you have to
install Emacs (from git) anyway, so I think the usefulness of this would
be kinda slim.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-28 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-28 0:41 Including C sources in packaged Emacs Wilfred Hughes
2016-02-28 3:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-28 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-02 21:49 ` Wilfred Hughes
2016-02-28 3:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-02-28 9:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-28 21:56 ` Richard Stallman
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