Re: Silently loading site files in -batch mode

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 06.08.2012 00:02, schrieb Jack Kelly:
> (Please CC me in replies - I'm not subscribed.)
>
> Hello again list,
>
> I'm still trying to make batchmode emacs silently load site files.
> Despite the warnings about advising builtins, advising `load' so that
> it is always called with `NOMESSAGE' works:
>
> (defadvice load (before quiet-loading activate)
>     (ad-set-arg 2 t))
>
> However, making sure that this advice is added before anything is
> loaded is not easy. I have tried adding it to `before-init-hook' and
> dumping a new emacs, but calling dump-emacs causes a segfault.
> Apparently dumping a dumped emacs ceased to work years ago[1].
>
> My other approach was to invoke emacs with -Q, advise `load' and then
> load site-run-file. That doesn't work either, as with -Q,
> site-run-file is undefined:
>
> $ emacs -Q -batch -eval "(print site-run-file)"
>
> nil
> $
>
> (As I'm writing this code for automake, I could check site-run-file
> during configure and save it, but that's not the main problem.)
>
> Unfortunately, debian has seen fit to patch lisp/startup.el[2], which
> means that to correctly load everything now means checking if it's a
> debianised emacs (and other distros could cause similar mischief).
>
> Are there any other command-line flags or environment variables that I
> could use to silence the initial loading messages? If not, are there
> any in the development pipeline?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Jack
>
> [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2004-02/msg00207.html
> [2]: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/emacs24/24.1+1-4/0002-Run-debian-startup-and-set-debian-emacs-flavor.patch
>
>

$EMACS -Q --batch --eval "(load \"MY-FILE\" nil t)"

Maybe like that?