Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:43:04 +0700 Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote: 

YK> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>> Perhaps you should look into "/usr/local/src". This is the place where
>> package managers can fetch the so-called "source packages", those which
>> contain only the source code.

YK> Nonsense. The /usr/local tree is, by definition, off-limits for
YK> package managers.

YK> 
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY

Homebrew on Mac OS X happily uses /usr/local. In particular I can find
the sources of any package I build in /usr/local/Cellar, which has been
convenient several times for non-Emacs purposes (with Emacs, as a
developer, I check it out to a local directory so I don't use its
Homebrew source directory much). I hope that helps.

Ted