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From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
Subject: bug#38399: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes break emacs-org
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:25:07 +0100
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To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
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Hello Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> It stands to reason that the elisp libraries provided by Emacs itself
>> shouldn=E2=80=99t be in EMACSLOADPATH in the first place as they are alr=
eady in
>> =E2=80=98load-path=E2=80=99 to which the directories in EMACSLOADPATH ar=
e prepended (as
>> described in the Emacs manual).
>
> That's not true; when using EMACSLOADPATH the Emacs' bundled libraries
> must be included explicitly, or an empty item be present (which means,
> an extra ':' present).
>
> See (elisp)Library Search:
>
>         An empty element in the value of the environment variable,
>     whether trailing (as in the above example), leading, or embedded, is
>     replaced by the default value of =E2=80=98load-path=E2=80=99 as deter=
mined by the
>     standard initialization procedure.  If there are no such empty
>     elements, then =E2=80=98EMACSLOADPATH=E2=80=99 specifies the entire =
=E2=80=98load-path=E2=80=99.
>     You must include either an empty element, or the explicit path to
>     the directory containing the standard Lisp files, else Emacs will
>     not function.

Thanks for the clarification!  And sorry for the noise, I should have
read it more closely.

Regards,

Diego