Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation

[Jason Rumney]

On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 10:07:36 UTC+8, Stefan Monnier  wrote:

> > I will give you the simplest visual example possible: Cygwin (see the
> > attachment). Sources will end up under "/usr/local/src/emacs".
> 
> Thanks.  So maybe it makes sense to do that for the Cygwin build (tho,
> still only after checking that the original value of source-directory
> points to a non-existing directory).

Or the package maintainers could build from the location where their packaged 
sources are intended to be installed, then the current source-directory would 
be correct without messing things up for Cygwin users who pull from git, and 
build from their HOME directory or elsewhere.