Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Wilfred Hughes <address@hidden> writes:

> Currently, most (all?) linux distros package Emacs without C sources. As a
> result, find-function does not work for any functions written in C. Users who
> have compiled Emacs themselves have the source, but most don't.
>
> I would love to see Emacs include its C code in /usr/share. In principle this
> would just be a change to the build script, and I've attached a patch that
> would work.
>
> Does this seem reasonable? Is there some configure flag that does this
> already?

Including the source in /usr/share for a program would be highly
unusual.  And if you want to hack on the C bits of Emacs, you have to
install Emacs (from git) anyway, so I think the usefulness of this would
be kinda slim.

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