bug#17291: 24.3.90; Doing "make" in elpa branch uses the user's ~/.emacs.d

[Nicolas Richard]

Hi,

I cloned the elpa repo, ran "make externals" and "make".
It showed me warnings like:

EMACS -f batch-byte-compile packages/ack/ack.el
Warning (emacs): Unable to activate package `use-package'.
Required package `bind-key-1.0' is unavailable

(the exact warning is irrelevant, it's a problem in my own installation)

The reason is that the actual command line (which is unfortunately not
shown on the screen) has -f package-initialize which looks for my own
~/.emacs.d. I suggest the following patch to fix the problem:

        Modified   GNUmakefile
diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 2b07767..f9deecf 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ elcs := $(call SET-diff, $(naive_elcs), $(patsubst %.el, 
%.elc, $(nbc_els)))
 %.elc: %.el
        @echo 'EMACS -f batch-byte-compile $<'
        @$(EMACS) \
-           --eval "(setq package-directory-list '(\"$(abspath packages)\"))" \
+           --eval "(setq package-directory-list nil package-user-dir 
\"$(abspath packages)\")" \
            --eval '(package-initialize)' \
            -L $(dir $@) -f batch-byte-compile $<
 
-- 
Nico.