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Re: Emacs C source code
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XeCycle |
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Re: Emacs C source code |
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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:44:31 +0800 |
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Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29 PM, XeCycle <XeCycle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu, like Debian, guesses you won't need those files. You can
>> get the source release from GNU.
>
> Not entirely correct. In debianoids, one can download the sources from
> which a binary package was built by issuing this:
>
> # apt-get source <packagename>
>
> e.g.
>
> # apt-get source emacs
>
> This puts the sources in a subdirectory of the current working
> directory, so then Emacs needs to be configured to find its sources
> there.
Ah, right, I forgot that. Most binary distributions don't
provide sources by default, so I'm accustomed to get sources from
official releases.
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