bug#6805: 24.0.50; package--dir assumes that Emacs is installed

[Chong Yidong]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On a fresh Emacs checkout from git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git on both
> Debian GNU/Linux testing and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable doing:
>
>     mkdir ~/g
>     git clone git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git &&
>     cd emacs &&
>     make -j 10 bootstrap &&
>     make
>
> followed by:
>
>     src/emacs
>
> will display, in the echo area:
>
>     "Internal error: could not find directory for package-1.0"

I don't see any error message with the Bzr repository; I don't know
about the unofficial git repository you are using.  You could try with
an empty .emacs file and no .emacs.d directory.