Subject: bug#11806: (setq load-path ..) of elisp-comp

From: Makoto Fujiwara <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:47:17 +0900

We have following line in automake-1.12.1/lib/elisp-comp.

    73  mkdir $tempdir
    74  cp "$@" $tempdir
    75  
    76  (
    77    cd $tempdir
    78    echo "(setq load-path (cons nil load-path))" > script
    79    $EMACS -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el || exit $?
    80    mv *.elc ..
    81  ) || exit $?
    82  
    83  (exit 0); exit 0

 It seems to me the intention of line 78 is to set load-path
to add default directory on top of existing load-path.

 This 'script' is OK if the file to compile is only one in the
directory.

  But if some files are in the directory there and we will
compile file by file on the same directory, there may be a
possibility that some files load another file in the same
directory. In that case this 'script' fails to read such ones.

I do have problem compiling *.el files with tc-2.3.1 (svn version) 

Following patch fixes this type of problem, thanks a lot.

By the way, the same patch was once proposed as
  http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.automake.patches/2003-01/msg00004.html
and fix seems to have made, but real line was dropped with
unknown reason.

--- lib/elisp-comp.orig	2012-06-01 22:47:10.000000000 +0900
+++ lib/elisp-comp	2012-06-28 13:28:44.000000000 +0900
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 
 (
   cd $tempdir
-  echo "(setq load-path (cons nil load-path))" > script
+  echo "(setq load-path (cons \"../\" (cons nil load-path)))" > script
   $EMACS -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el || exit $?
   mv *.elc ..
 ) || exit $?

Thanks again, 
---
Makoto Fujiwara, 
Chiba, Japan, Narita Airport and Disneyland prefecture.