From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: 14876@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14876: 24.3; load-path and environment variable EMACSLOADPATH
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:41:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2qjphto.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
The node "Library Search" suggests to to set EMACSLOADPATH to some
user directory such as /home/foo/.emacs.d/lisp. Yet this does not
agree with the docstring of load-path and emacs fails miserably if
one uses
export EMACSLOADPATH=/home/foo/.emacs.d/lisp
The proper meaning of EMACSLOADPATH seems to be the one given in the
docstring of load-path saying that EMACSLOADPATH overrides the
default value of load-path specified by file `epaths.h' when Emacs
was built.
The docstring of load-path also says that an element `nil' means
"try default directory". Yet what is the "default directory" in this
context? default-directory is a buffer-local variable with default nil.
I looked into this because I was looking for a way to _extend_ the
emacs load path in a Makefile generated via autoconf.
Autoconf uses the shell script elisp-comp to compile lisp files.
This script uses
echo "(setq load-path (cons nil load-path))" > script
$EMACS -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el || exit $?
In such a hard-coded setting I cannot (easily) extend the load-path via
the emacs option --load. But the purpose of loading the file script
is not clear to me either.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
of 2013-03-27 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
System Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
next reply other threads:[~2013-07-15 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-15 22:41 Roland Winkler [this message]
2013-07-15 22:48 ` bug#14876: 24.3; load-path and environment variable EMACSLOADPATH Glenn Morris
2013-07-15 23:11 ` Roland Winkler
2013-07-15 23:23 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-15 23:29 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-16 0:34 ` Roland Winkler
2013-07-16 0:55 ` Roland Winkler
2013-07-16 0:55 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-16 1:16 ` Roland Winkler
2013-07-16 1:39 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-16 3:14 ` Roland Winkler
2013-11-14 8:39 ` Glenn Morris
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