I am using Gnu Emacs 24.3 on Ubuntu 12.04.
I downloaded dired+.el from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/dired%2b.el . I then tried to byte-compile this file in Emacs. I made a file bytecomp.el :
(byte-compile-file "dired+.el")
and run the following command:
bash$ emacs -batch -l bytecomp.el -kill
and got the following error message:
In toplevel form:
dired+.el:1114:1:Error: Cannot open load file: dired+
Update
Changing the file bytecomp.el to:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/emacs/test/bytecompile")
(byte-compile-file "dired+.el")
and running emacs -batch -l bytecomp.el -kill from the same directory ( ~/emacs/test/bytecompile ) gives another error message:
Recursive load: "/home/fcihh/emacs/test/bytecompile/bytecomp.el", "/home/fcihh/emacs/test/bytecompile/bytecomp.el", "/home/fcihh/emacs/test/bytecompile/bytecomp.el", "/home/fcihh/emacs/test/bytecompile/bytecomp.el", "/home/fcihh/emacs/test/bytecompile/bytecomp.el"