[debbugs-tracker] bug#14876: closed (24.3; load-path and environment variable EMACSLOADPATH)

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> 24.3; load-path and environment variable EMACSLOADPATH
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> Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:41:07 -0500
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> 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
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>   export EMACSLOADPATH=/home/foo/.emacs.d/lisp
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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>   echo "(setq load-path (cons nil load-path))" > script
>   $EMACS -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el || exit $?
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Re: bug#14876: 24.3; load-path and environment variable EMACSLOADPATH
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> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 03:39:42 -0500
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.4
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> I finally got round to updating the "Library Search" section.
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