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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 37527@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:48:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2724000-d7ef-8a9b-2285-9ff4cac5460a@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8336c8wxmn.fsf@gnu.org>

On 1/21/20 9:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Should we really step on source-directory like that?  What if
> the original source tree still exists?

Those assignments occur when you're running out of a just-built Emacs, and the 
intent is that they set source-directory to the original source tree. They're 
helpful in a typical just-built case when you haven't installed yet; if we 
omitted the assignments, C-h f etc. wouldn't find the source code automatically.

> Maybe it would be safer to
> introduce a new variable, say, install-source-directory?

I don't offhand see why that'd be safer. It would be more complicated, and the 
complexity would make it less safe.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21 17:48 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 [this message]
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
2019-09-29 13:02 ` Rohan Hendrik Jotz-Lean

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