From: Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com>
To: 19151@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19151: 24.4; Batch mode doesn't call package-initialize, can't find packages
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:24:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFChFyixqrhA4E5yNUZoM0ZdBZHa+5as2YsaCKChVYeNji_upg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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In batch mode, emacs doesn't load installed packages, although the doc
implies that it should. If you want to eval forms that require packages,
you have to call (package-initialize) explicitly.
For instance, from a shell:
% emacs -batch -eval '(progn (message "%s" package-directory-list))'
Symbol's value as variable is void: package-directory-list
% emacs -batch -eval '(progn (package-initialize) (message "%s"
package-directory-list))'
(c:/emacs/emacs/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp/elpa
c:/emacs/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa)
Or, since I have the 'dash' package installed in my ~/.emacs.d/elpa:
% emacs -batch -eval "(progn (require 'dash))"
Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, dash
% emacs -batch -eval "(progn (package-initialize) (require 'dash))"
%
The documentation at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Startup-Summary.html
is not totally clear on this, but it implies that packages should be loaded.
In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-10-24 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr'
Important settings:
value of $LANG: ENU
locale-coding-system: cp1252
Major mode: Apropos
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Gary
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next reply other threads:[~2014-11-22 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-22 22:24 Gary Oberbrunner [this message]
2014-11-23 11:26 ` bug#19151: 24.4; Batch mode doesn't call package-initialize, can't find packages Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-23 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-02 1:24 ` npostavs
2016-07-02 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-02 20:50 ` npostavs
2016-07-03 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-03 13:21 ` npostavs
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