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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Subject: bug#17291: closed (Re: bug#17291: 24.3.90; Doing "make" in elpa
 branch uses the user's ~/.emacs.d)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:25:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr, 17291-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17291: 24.3.90;
 Doing "make" in elpa branch uses the user's ~/.emacs.d
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:24:56 -0400

Applied Nicolas's patch, changed echo messages.

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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.90; Doing "make" in elpa branch uses the user's ~/.emacs.d
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:53:02 +0200

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 $<
 
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Nico.

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