image-load-path / tool-bar icons / dumped Emacs with images.el

[David Reitter <dreitter@inf.ed.ac.uk>]

I have an issue with image-load-path, defined in images.el.

Since the tool-bar images have been moved to data-directory/images,  
my Emacs can't find the icons any more.
The reason is that I am precompiling image.el into a dumped binary,  
and when that happens, image-load-path gets initialized. At run-time,  
the data-directory is somewhere else, however.

Before the tool-bar icons were moved, this didn't matter too much,  
since I had lisp/toolbar in the load-path (maybe because it's a  
subdir of lisp).

Of course, I can add the new location to the load-path now, but I  
think the better solution would be if image-load-path would be  
initialized at run-time, or if there was some flexible way of  
specifying something like '(load-path "/images") in image-load-path.


> (defvar image-load-path
>   (list (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "images" data- 
> directory))
>     'data-directory 'load-path)
>   "List of locations in which to search for image files.
> If an element is a string, it defines a directory to search.
> If an element is a variable symbol whose value is a string, that
> value defines a directory to search.
> If an element is a variable symbol whose value is a list, the
> value is used as a list of directories to search.")