GNU bug report logs - #36828
27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>

Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:08:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>

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From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:56:28 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs tries the installation directory first, and only falls back to
> the build directory if the installation directory doesn't exist.

Does this happen if Emacs was never installed from that build directory?

And is there a good reason for doing that? When Emacs is executed from
the build directory, I expect that it works on the contents of that
directory (and the correspondent source directory, for out-of-tree
builds.)
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