Re: Silently loading site files in -batch mode

[PJ Weisberg]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name> wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I agree with you, however debian's modifications to how emacs starts
> up means that there's some potential additions to the load-path that
> come from files similar to /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el .
>
> Not running the call to debian-startup appears to mean that the
> following could happen:
>
> 1. package foo is being compiled.
> 2. foo.el contains (require 'bar), installed by apt.
> 3. emacs is invoked with -Q, so the directory containing bar.el or
> bar.elc is not in the load-path.
> 4. boom.

$EMACS -Q --batch --eval "(push \"/path/to/bar\" load-path)" --eval
"(load \"MY-FILE\" nil t)"

-PJ

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