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In the command-line-1 function in startup.el appears the following code:

		...
		((or (string-equal argi "-l")
		     (string-equal argi "-load"))
		 (let ((load-path (cons default-directory load-path)))
		   (load (car command-line-args-left) nil t))
		 ...)

The problem with this is that because of the let there is no way for a file
loaded by command line options to change load-path for another command.  In
my case, I want some initialization to be done before calling the
byte-compiler.  One of these initializations was supposed to be to reset
load-path so require's will load the right file.  But putting the
initialization into a separate file and then doing
	gnuemacs -batch -l init.el -batch-byte-compile file.el
doesn't work in the special case of load-path.

It's not clear what should be fixed.  I see why consing the default
directory onto load-path makes sense when processing the command line.
Maybe all that can be done is to document the problem, but this wouldn't be
very satisfactory. I think the problem is a little too obscure to call it a
feature; it took a lot of debugging to find.  I had to redefine require to
print out load-path when called from the byte-compiler.

version:
"GNU Emacs 18.55.13 of Thu Jun 21 1990 on n.cs.uiuc.edu (berkeley-unix)"

Rob Hasker		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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