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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #132 received at 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
Cc: 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stepnem <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed
 documentation
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:03:16 +0200

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
> Cc: stepnem <at> gmail.com,  36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:40:03 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.
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