Re: Install C source code for for debugging help

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:24:23 -0700
> 
> On 9/27/19 6:56 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Both you and my (and others on
> > this list) have the sources installed,
> 
> Not really. I am typing this email on a laptop that has Emacs installed, 
> but there are no C sources in sight because Ubuntu doesn't supply them 
> as part of Emacs.

So if I refer to something in the sources, or send a C-level patch,
you cannot do anything useful with that information?  I don't
understand how a major contributor to C code in Emacs can work on a
machine without sources, excerpt when he/she is on vacation.