Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?)

[Noam Postavsky]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 08:04, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:35:45PM +1100, Van Ly wrote:
> > > If I were you, I'd file a bug report with NetBSD.
>
> [...]
>
> > With more experience packaging and distributing GNU/Emacs, I want to 
> > believe the packages for masses by maintaners are better than what I can 
> > roll my own. It may not "just work" for you and me if we move the git-repo 
> > after `make install`.
>
> Can't confirm: I always compile Emacs off git and "make install".
> Source dir is always in the right place for C-x C-f to find the C
> sources. I strongly suspect the packaging to be at fault in this.

Because Emacs save the absolute dir:

source-directory is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
Its value is "/home/npostavs/src/emacs/emacs-26/"

Documentation:
Directory in which Emacs sources were found when Emacs was built.
You cannot count on them to still be there!