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[PATCH 2/2] Improve instructions how set path to C source code for Red Hat

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Message #8 received at 72466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
Cc: 72466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72466: [PATCH 2/2] Improve instructions how set path to C
 source code for Red Hat
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:15:48 +0300

> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 16:17:25 +0300
> From:  Björn Bidar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> * etc/PROBLEMS(Problems when reading or debugging Emacs C code):
> Improve instruction how to set path to C source code for Red Hat
> based systems.
> ---
>  etc/PROBLEMS | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
> index ef205da2c17..a642ebce570 100644
> --- a/etc/PROBLEMS
> +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
> @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ To get describe-function and similar commands to work, you can then
>  add something like the following to your startup file:
>  
>       (setq find-function-C-source-directory
> -           "/usr/src/debug/emacs-27.1-1.fc31.x86_64/src/")
> +          (car (file-expand-wildcards "/usr/src/debug/emacs-*/src")))

Thanks, but I'd rather not confuse users with Lisp, and neither would
I assume that the first directory in the wildcard expansion will
necessarily be the one belonging to the running Emacs.

What exactly is wrong with the text as written?  It explains where did
27.1 came from:

  Once you have installed the source package, for example at
  /home/myself/deb-src/emacs-27.1, add the following line to your
  startup file:        ^^^^^^^^^^

If you think 27.1 is too old, we could change that to 30 or something.
But other than that, I think the text is fine as it is.

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