Subject: Re: bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:03:16 +0200

> From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:40:03 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> Once we know that we are running a non-installed emacs, detecting that
> >> it is an out-of-source build seems quite easy, because the build
> >> directory contains build artifacts without the sources.
> >
> > Yes.  But how to detect that we are running non-installed?
> 
> Checking for the presence of the "Makefile" file using the same method
> we use for "NEWS".

Presence where?

Anyway, Makefile is too common a file, I think we should look for
something more specific to Emacs.