Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?

[Stefan Monnier]

> while installing a newly-compiled one into the same tree.  If you change
> the doc strings or order of functions in the emacs C sources, or the
> pre-loaded Lisp sources, the offsets in the DOC file may change, so the
> values loaded into one Emacs binary correspond to its matching DOC file.

That's OK: there's code to detect such "out of date offsets" that then
calls Snarf-documentation again to reset the offsets.
It doesn't work in every possible case, but I've been using such a setup
for many years now and have seen a wrong docstring only maybe twice.


        Stefan