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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help |
Date: | Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:58:11 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 |
On 1/21/20 7:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Then I still think an additional variable might be a better solution, because the original source tree might still exist, and so losing the information about its location would be a disadvantage.
? The code in question does not lose information about the location of the original source tree. On the contrary, it supplies that information.
If you're suggesting that every installed Emacs should contain a string pointing to where it was built, I'm not sure that's a good idea. Generally speaking, builds should be reproducible and build products should not contain unimportant information about the build (such as timestamps and whatnot) as that makes it harder to reproduce them later.
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