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bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:56:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs tries the installation directory first, and only falls back to
> the build directory if the installation directory doesn't exist.

Does this happen if Emacs was never installed from that build directory?

And is there a good reason for doing that? When Emacs is executed from
the build directory, I expect that it works on the contents of that
directory (and the correspondent source directory, for out-of-tree
builds.)





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