# Julia -p N --project=... does not work
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-p-n-project-does-not-work/134682
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-p-n-project-does-not-work/134682 "2025-12-22T08:35:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-p-n-project-does-not-work/134682/1 "2025-12-22T08:35:24Z")
I was expecting the `--project` switch to apply to all processes, but apparently it does not. Is this a bug, or something by design?
(I can work around this with `@everywhere Pkg.activate(...)`, that is not the issue. I encountered this on 1.11, did not test on 1.12.)
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### Author:  [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-p-n-project-does-not-work/134682/2 "2025-12-23T07:00:01Z")
Huh. [Propagate package environment to local workers by fredrikekre · Pull Request #43270 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/43270). But supposedly that’s already in 1.10, 1.11, and 1.12.
If it’s not working, that seems (IMO) like a bug.
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### Author:  [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-p-n-project-does-not-work/134682/3 "2025-12-23T07:04:25Z")
Does it work if you start Julia with `julia --project` (without `-p`), and then do `addprocs()`?
If so, the bug may be specific to the `-p` codepath.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-p-n-project-does-not-work/134682/4 "2025-12-23T08:09:40Z")
Thanks for linking the bug. I am still paring it down to an MWE, in simple cases it works as expected.