override them. Users can prevent loading `default.el' with the `-q'
option or by setting `inhibit-default-init' in their own init files,
but inhibiting `site-start.el' requires `--no-site-file', which
-is less convenient."
+is less convenient.
+
+This variable is defined for customization so as to make
+it visible in the relevant context. However, actually customizing it
+is not allowed, since it would not work anyway. The only way to set
+this variable usefully is to set it during while building and dumping Emacs."
:type '(choice (const :tag "none" nil) string)
- :group 'initialization)
+ :group 'initialization
+ :initialize 'custom-initialize-default
+ :set '(lambda (variable value)
+ (error "Customizing `site-run-file' does not work")))
(defcustom mail-host-address nil
"*Name of this machine, for purposes of naming users."