Re: on specifying the C source code directory (Was: Re: on ``An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp'')

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-01, at 13:07, Daniel Bastos <dbastos@toledo.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I'd like to point out that one nice benefit of compiling from source
>> (apart from staying on the bleeding edge) is that you can easily use C-h
>> f to jump to the source code of functions written in C.
>
> You seem a good person to ask then.  I'm able to look up source code in
> C source code in a Windows installation.  But I always need to tell it
> which is the directory source code.  How could I make sure it knows
> which directory that is?

No idea.  It Just Works™ on my (GNU/Linux) machine, after compiling from
source, without specifying the directory even once.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University