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Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:13:22 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Unlike the Lisp files, the C files are not targeted and placed outside of
> the source distribution by `make install`.  It seems.

Indeed, the C source files are not expected to be present in an
Emacs installation.  They're only expected to be present on the machine
where Emacs was compiled.

Part of the idea is that, if you're not compiling Emacs yourself,
accessing the C source code is much less useful.


        Stefan




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