From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:14:40 +1030 Message-ID: <87y4a5xzvb.fsf@gnus.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456631158 22577 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2016 03:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Wilfred Hughes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 04:45:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZsIn-0002h7-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZsIj-0003zy-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZsIQ-0003zm-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:45:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZsIN-00021T-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:44231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZsIN-00021O-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aZsI0-0007Ct-I3; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:45:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Wilfred Hughes's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:41:08 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aZsI0-0007Ct-I3 MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1457235901.62339@uOPnAp6Y9PU8Im3lAD2/1Q X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200740 Archived-At: Wilfred Hughes 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