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28.0.50; flymake for elisp does not respect `load-path`

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Max Brieiev <max.brieiev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 48452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48452: 28.0.50; flymake for elisp does not respect `load-path`
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:47:39 +0200

Max Brieiev <max.brieiev <at> gmail.com> writes:

> As far as I understand Emacs doesn't add "~/.emacs.d/elpa" to
> `load-path`, when started with -Q flag, but this bug report needs a
> fully established `load-path`. So to reproduce the bug please create an
> empty ".emacs" file and start Emacs.
>
> Then:
>
> - C-x C-f ~/.emacs
> - M-x flymake-mode
> - in .emacs buffer type require expression, requiring any library on
>   your elpa path, e.g. `(require 'dash)`.
>
> Observe that flymake reports "Cannot open load file: No such file or
> directory, dash", even though `load-path` contains
> "~/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-<version>/" directory.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 29.  Do you still see this problem
in recent Emacs versions?

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