🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm really confused.  I have enough lisp stuff to add to emacs that I
wanted to put all in a separate directory.  This helps folks discern
the elisp code included with emacs from the contributed code, and it
makes it a lot easier to upgrade to a newer version of emacs when you
don't have to copy a whole bunch of junk back into the new tree.

What I really want to do is to have *two* directories in the default load-
path, e.g. ("/usr/local/lib/emacs-lisp" "/usr/local/lib/emacs-18.57/lisp").
There are other ways to do this, e.g. put EMACSLOADPATH in everyone's
.cshrc (gross), or expect every user to add it to their personal
.emacs files (equally as gross).  I can also put it in default.el, but
I'm trying to avoid that so that emacs starts quickly.

I tried to put

  (setq load-path (append (list "/usr/local/lib/emacs-lisp") load-path))

in lisp/site-init.el, but that didn't work.  During the build, it
appears that everything else in the file is parsed except this -- GNUS
variables and VM variables are set just fine, but the load-path only
has ("/usr/local/lib/emacs-18.57/lisp") in it.  If M-x load-file
site-init.el, then it dutifully sets the load-path correctly.

I've been staring at this so long, I think I must have overlooked
something obvious.  Why can't I get it to set the path from
site-init.el?  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

	Jim

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