Re: How to make Emacs use ELPA version of `compat'?

RangHo Lee <[email protected]> writes:

>
>> Try:
>> 
>>     1. emacs -Q
>>     2. C-h v load-path RET
>>        Confirm that ‘load-path’ contains only the Emacs
>>        predefined directories.
>>     3. M-x package-initialize RET
>>     4. C-h v load-path RET
>>        Confirm that ‘load-path’ contains the directories of
>>        your installed packages before the predefined
>>        directories
>>     5. Perform whatever test it is that you are using for
>>        ‘compat’.  If Emacs is still failing to find the newer
>>        version of ‘compat’, then report your test(s) and
>>        results to this mailing list.
>
> Hmm, odd. When I manually run the steps above, Emacs seems to load the 
> correct version. But when I load my init.el (which uses `use-package' to 
> configure packages, FYI), Emacs suddenly falls back to the built-in version.
>
> Now, I suspect the load order is being messed up. Does `use-package' 
> re-arrange the load order based on package dependency?

You might try the following to localize the expression(s)
that is not doing what you expect:

   1. Add the expression (locate-library "compat") to the
beginning of your init.el file.

   2. After repeating steps 1-5 above, read your init.el
file into a buffer (that is, do *not* load it).

   3. Evaluate the (locate-library "compat") expression to
confirm that Emacs is finding the ELPA updated version.

   4. Evaluate each of your remaining expressions in your
init.el.  After each evaluation, re-evaluate the
(locate-library "compat") expression to see whether its
result has changed.  That should help you to locate the
source of the problem (instead of guessing).

If you find that a ‘use-package’ expression is the source of
the problem, then you might be able to use the
Troubleshooting section of the ‘use-package’ user manual:

   (info "(use-package) Troubleshooting")

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