From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37527@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:51:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c60fc8a7-2b73-37ac-fd37-ad1e100b2454@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tv8yjjaz.fsf@gnu.org>
On 9/27/19 2:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I thought major distros offered a source archive as well, as an
> optional download, don't they?
They have to; the GPL requires it. But there's no requirement that the
source be installed or conveniently reachable from the executable, and
in practice it typically isn't.
The patch I proposed would solve this problem. It's possible other
patches would also solve the problem on some platforms, if someone would
take the time to develop and debug them, and we could use them on
platforms where they work. However, I expect that something like the
proposed patch (or something like it) would be needed as a backstop
anyway, for platforms that don't have the debugging source packages that
people have mentioned. So we could start with the proposed patch and
mutate it or add fancier platform-specific support later if we have the
time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-28 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:07 bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 8:58 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-27 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 19:59 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-28 5:55 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-28 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 7:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-29 7:09 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-28 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 9:11 ` Michael Albinus
2019-09-28 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 13:38 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-03 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 8:52 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-03 16:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-04 8:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-03 21:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-03 22:32 ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-04 1:28 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-04 8:57 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-04 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-06 7:48 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-07 15:17 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-07 19:48 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-08 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08 9:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-08 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 19:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 9:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-21 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 17:48 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-21 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 0:27 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-22 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 8:58 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-23 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 17:42 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-23 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 0:47 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-25 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 9:00 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-26 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 18:18 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-26 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 20:09 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-27 21:17 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-28 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 20:06 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-26 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 5:51 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-09-29 13:02 ` Rohan Hendrik Jotz-Lean
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