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From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:51:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhr26oci.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbm3is9eg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:13:22 -0500)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Unlike the Lisp files, the C files are not targeted and placed outside of
>> the source distribution by `make install`.  It seems.
>
> Indeed, the C source files are not expected to be present in an
> Emacs installation.  They're only expected to be present on the machine
> where Emacs was compiled.
>
> Part of the idea is that, if you're not compiling Emacs yourself,
> accessing the C source code is much less useful.

I think it would be useful if the help buffer explained this.

E.g.

"forward-char is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
C-source codes isn't usually available unless Emacs was installed from
source."

BR,
Robert Thorpe




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-11 11:35 missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Van Ly
2019-02-11 13:03 ` tomas
2019-02-11 13:56   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-02-11 14:13 ` missing src/ directory for eval.c Stefan Monnier
2019-02-11 15:16   ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-11 16:44     ` tomas
2019-02-11 20:51   ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2019-02-11 20:54     ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 22:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12  0:01       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-12  4:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12  5:16           ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 14:17 ` missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Yuri Khan
2019-02-11 20:45   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 22:01   ` Van L
2019-02-12  0:04     ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-12 12:21       ` missing src/ directory for eval.c Van L

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