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From: | Alex Kosorukoff |
Subject: | bug#17467: 24.3; locate-library returning spurious path |
Date: | Sun, 11 May 2014 19:02:56 -0700 |
Thank you for the example. You are right, gnus-start.el is using locate-library to check existence of its init files and uses load to search for them again right after. Given how that code is written, we probably should keep locate-library as is since at least some people people are relying on its ability to locate arbitrary files that are not libraries.On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:Alex Kosorukoff wrote:I've somewhat lost track of exactly what you want an example of, but:
> I think these file names are more appropriate for data files, not
> executable ones. It is undesirable that a name "tramp.gz" will shadow a
> valid library file "tramp.elc" that won't be found as a result. When you
> say those names aren't spurious, do you have a particular example of an
> emacs elisp library in mind which file name ends with a suffix other than
> .el .elc .el.gz .elc.gz? I think the main difference is that I assume that
> this list is exhaustive and you imply that it is not. You can prove me
> wrong by a single example.
When Gnus starts, it will read the `gnus-site-init-file'
(`.../site-lisp/gnus-init' by default) and `gnus-init-file' (`~/.gnus'
by default) files. These are normal Emacs Lisp files and can be used
to avoid cluttering your `~/.emacs' and `site-init' files with Gnus
stuff. Gnus will also check for files with the same names as these,
but with `.elc' and `.el' suffixes. In other words, if you have set
`gnus-init-file' to `~/.gnus', it will look for `~/.gnus.elc',
`~/.gnus.el', and finally `~/.gnus' (in this order).
and it uses locate-library to do that.
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