Re: [h-e-w] problems with source-directory

[Jim Davidson]

Jason Rumney writes:

> The only places where I can find this used is `update-file-autoloads'
> in emacs-lisp/autoload.el and `info-initialize' in info.el.
> The former is only useful for regenerating loaddefs.el, and you would
> only need to do that if you were hacking on the source. 

I'm using update-file-autoloads.  I often download packages that have
;;;###autoload directives in the code.  Every so often, I regenerate my local
loaddefs.el so that these local packages have appropriate entries.  That
way, the packages are autoloaded when needed.

> It is not unreasonable to assume that the source should be installed in such
> a case.

OK.  However, the problem is not with the fact that the source is installed,
but that the value of source-directory is wrong.  Currently (ntemacs 21.1)
source-directory defaults to: 
        "c:/andrewi/emacs-21.1/"

That directory doesn't exist on my machine (or, I venture, anyone except
Andrew's).  

If a utility like update-file-autoloads is going to use source-directory,
the value should default to something real.

-Jim