Re: Install C source code for for debugging help

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:45:14 +0200
> 
> On Sep 27 2019, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > OK, I can see why this is a valid reason.  But how does it happen,
> > technically, that the emacs-debugsource directory is different?
> 
> The debug info files are post-processed to relocate the references to
> the source directory.  (See
> <https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/master/scripts/find-debuginfo.sh>
> for details.)

I see, thanks.

So I guess it would be useful to have a feature whereby we look in the
debug info for this directory and use it instead of source-directory,
if source-directory itself was not found.