Re: Packaging Org: how to put the newer version in load-path?

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

Sean Whitton <sean@silentflame.com> writes:
> I am presently packaging up Org from git for a new (to me) GNU/Linux
> distribution I am switching to, CRUX [1], and I can’t figure out the
> clean way to get the new version of Org in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp to
> override that in /usr/share/emacs/23.3.  I mean I could easily add it to
> the front of my load-path in my own init file, but I don’t have to do
> that on Arch Linux, which I am switching away from, because something
> somewhere is adding it to the front of load-path for me.  What might
> this be, so that I might duplicate this?  Is there a system-wide file
> full of load paths for Emacs that I am missing?

This depends on how Emacs was configured.  The initial load-path is
defined in epath.h or can be overridden by an environment variable
EMACSLOADPATH. The invocation

emacs -Q -nw --batch --eval '(message "%s" load-path)'

tells you what the load-path is before running any startup scripts (if
subdirs.el is existing in any of the initial load-path directories, then
any subdirectories should have been expanded already).

The standard setup should be looking for

…/$VERSION/site-lisp
…/site-lisp
…/$VERSION/lisp
…/$VERSION/leim (maybe)

in that order (first version specific site-lisp, then site-lisp, then
the lisp that came with that installation of Emacs).  It could be
configured to use a different prefix for any site-lisp directories to
keep them separate from the installation.


HTH,
Achim.
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