From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Van Ly <vy0123@me.com>
Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:56:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9i3NwwdQ7MECT=SXrCrsQtkvtzF6p1psJFFE1wLwcOtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190211130346.GA32312@tuxteam.de>
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 08:04, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:35:45PM +1100, Van Ly wrote:
> > > If I were you, I'd file a bug report with NetBSD.
>
> [...]
>
> > With more experience packaging and distributing GNU/Emacs, I want to believe the packages for masses by maintaners are better than what I can roll my own. It may not "just work" for you and me if we move the git-repo after `make install`.
>
> Can't confirm: I always compile Emacs off git and "make install".
> Source dir is always in the right place for C-x C-f to find the C
> sources. I strongly suspect the packaging to be at fault in this.
Because Emacs save the absolute dir:
source-directory is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
Its value is "/home/npostavs/src/emacs/emacs-26/"
Documentation:
Directory in which Emacs sources were found when Emacs was built.
You cannot count on them to still be there!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 13:56 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 [this message]
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
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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