Re: pkg/54162: 26.2; emacs/src C files are not in pkgsrc/editors/emacs26/PLIST

[VanL <van@scratch.space>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54162; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: VanL <van@scratch.space>
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Subject: Re: pkg/54162: 26.2; emacs/src C files are not in pkgsrc/editors/emacs26/PLIST
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:43:29 +1000

 > On 21 Jul 2019, at 04:35, David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> =
 wrote:
 >=20
 >>=20
 >> For example, C-h f setq-default has a hyperlink at the end of the
 >> first line.
 >=20
 > Are you talking about the elisp library sources, or the Emacs C
 > sources?
 
 The help documentation's first line reads as follows.
 
  : setq-default is a special form in =E2=80=98C source code=E2=80=99.
 
 I'm not talking about the elisp library sources.  They work.
 
 > ISTM that the best way to do this is to untar the distfile in your
 > homedir somewhere and set source-directory in your .emacs.
 
 I have a git checkout to /i/share/src/emacs which keeps changing.
 
 Having the pkgsrc/editors/emacs26/PLIST include emacs/src has the =
 advantage of exactly accurately matching pkg's Emacs program to pkgsrc's =
 Emacs C sources.