Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 21:55:05 +0100
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
> 
> After building and installing Emacs, the C sources are not installed. How
> to ask the build system for that?

I think only manually.  Better yet, just unpack the sources in the
directory where you want them in the first place.

> Furthermore, if Emacs was built in some random (usually temporary) build
> directory, then: when issuing Emacs documentation on some function which is
> defined in C code and clicking the `C source code' link, Emacs would open
> the corresponding C source file which is located in this random build
> directory. This is definitely not something one would expect, especially in
> the case when Emacs was built on a developer machine and distributed to
> other users in a prebuilt form.
> 
> How to tell Emacs to recognize that the C sources are in say the "src"
> directory which would be on the same level as the "bin" directory and
> company (preferably in the relative form).

Try setting the variable source-directory.