Re: Tracing what is loading

[Kevin Rodgers]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
> > Please note that there already _is_ a message for every file loaded. But
> > because the *Messages* buffer only shows the last 50 (or so) messages,
> > you can't see them because starting up causes quite more messages.
>
> Sorry to be back bugging you again but maybe you can add a little more
> here.
>
> Looking at that list, I see some anomalies.
>
> The first 105 lines are of this form:
>   /usr/share/emacs/22.3/lisp/term/x-win.elc
>
> All are in /usr/share/emacs/22.3*

I think those were dumped into the emacs executable.

> Then comes a line (106):
>
>     /usr/local/GNUS/lisp/gnus-load.el
>
> An address that is not a normal path to be searched.
> How did emacs know to look there?
>
> That is the address to gnus but not the one in the emacs
> distribution.  This is the cvs version.

Hmmm, perhaps that directory was in load-path at some point,
or the file was loaded using its absolute file name.

> The information that tells emacs where to look for that lisp directory
> resides in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el
>
> Which according to the list has not yet been loaded.
>
> That doesn't show up until line 118
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el
>
> So is this listing just not accurate to that degree or is something else
> going on?  I ask because I'm trying to discover when certain init
> files are loaded.

Does /usr/local/GNUS/lisp/gnus-load.el show up in the list when you
start emacs with -Q?  What about the other files between it and
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA