Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!MCC.COM!loeffler
From: loeffler@MCC.COM (David D. Loeffler)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: site-init.el
Message-ID: <9001161919.AA08201@racine.aca.mcc.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 19:19:52 GMT
Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Lines: 15

I would like to make one customization for our site.  I wanted to keep
all the emacs extensions that people share over the net in a separate
directory from the lisp files that are distributed with system.  I
thought I could do this by using the site-init.el file.  I put the
following form in the file:

;;; All the programs contributed over the net go in "contrib" directory.  
;;; Users should add any paths they would like searched to this list in their .emacs file.
;;; Be sure to use expand-file-name as in this example:
;;; (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/emacs-stuff") load-path))

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "/usr/src/gnu/dist-18.55/contrib") load-path))

But after building emacs all I get the default directory in the list.
What am I doing wrong?