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[PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help

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Message #35 received at 37527 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 37527 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 09:01:28 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu,  37527 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:59:17 +0200
> 
> +* GNU/Linux source packages
> +
> +Many GNU/Linux systems provide separate packages containing the
> +sources of Emacs.  They are useful if you want to check the source
> +code of Emacs primitive functions, and alike.

I'd add here "or debug Emacs on the C level".

> +The names of the packages that you need varies according to the
> +GNU/Linux distribution that you use.  On Debian-based systems, you can
> +install all the packages needed to build the installed version of
> +Emacs with a command like 'apt-get source' (on older systems, replace
> +'emacs' with eg 'emacs25').  On Red Hat-based systems, the
> +corresponding command is <tbd>.

Does this include the emacs-debugsource stuff mentioned by Andreas?
If not, I think we should add that.

Otherwise, this is fine with me, it can be installed on master right
now.

Thanks.

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