From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:17:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <834mugvw5w.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbmvufpy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415334028 26450 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2014 04:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 04:20:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 05:20:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Xmb24-00051K-Ql for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xmb24-0004aw-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:20:20 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.103.164 with SMTP id f24mr7062018yhg.11.1415333868561; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:17:48 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.66.144 with SMTP id f16mr10811igt.17.1415333868362; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:17:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no1856832qae.0!news-out.google.com!c9ni6612igv.0!nntp.google.com!r10no4968548igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=175.136.230.202; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 175.136.230.202 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:17:48 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208534 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100811 Archived-At: On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 10:07:36 UTC+8, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I will give you the simplest visual example possible: Cygwin (see the > > attachment). Sources will end up under "/usr/local/src/emacs". >=20 > Thanks. So maybe it makes sense to do that for the Cygwin build (tho, > still only after checking that the original value of source-directory > points to a non-existing directory). Or the package maintainers could build from the location where their packag= ed sources are intended to be installed, then the current source-directory = would be correct without messing things up for Cygwin users who pull from g= it, and build from their HOME directory or elsewhere.