Sean Whitton <s...@silentflame.com> writes: > I am presently packaging up Org from git for a new (to me) GNU/Linux > distribution I am switching to, CRUX [1], and I can’t figure out the > clean way to get the new version of Org in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp to > override that in /usr/share/emacs/23.3. I mean I could easily add it to > the front of my load-path in my own init file, but I don’t have to do > that on Arch Linux, which I am switching away from, because something > somewhere is adding it to the front of load-path for me. What might > this be, so that I might duplicate this? Is there a system-wide file > full of load paths for Emacs that I am missing?
This depends on how Emacs was configured. The initial load-path is defined in epath.h or can be overridden by an environment variable EMACSLOADPATH. The invocation emacs -Q -nw --batch --eval '(message "%s" load-path)' tells you what the load-path is before running any startup scripts (if subdirs.el is existing in any of the initial load-path directories, then any subdirectories should have been expanded already). The standard setup should be looking for …/$VERSION/site-lisp …/site-lisp …/$VERSION/lisp …/$VERSION/leim (maybe) in that order (first version specific site-lisp, then site-lisp, then the lisp that came with that installation of Emacs). It could be configured to use a different prefix for any site-lisp directories to keep them separate from the installation. HTH, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ DIY Stuff: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/DIY.html
