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From: Eric J Haywiser <ejh1@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Re: ?Glitch in Makefile: Release org-mode 5.10b
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Steven E. Harris wrote:

> Eric J Haywiser <ejh1@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> This could be confusing to a newbie, who is the most likely person to
>> encounter this problem.
>
> I just ran into this problem while installing org-mode last night, and
> came up with a similar fix.
>
>  BATCH=$(EMACS) -batch -q -eval \
>    "(progn (add-to-list (quote load-path) \"$(pwd)\") \
>            (add-to-list (quote load-path) \"$(pwd)/xemacs\"))"
>
For the record:

The appropriate adjective may be "better" not "similar", particularly for a 
newbie.  I think pwd is a more portable, specifically shell agnostic, and 
therefore better choice.