Nick, thanks. i've submitted a bug report.
cheers, Greg ps -- if anyone tried the recipe i gave before, this one seems to actually work from a clean repository (i don't think the other did): ---- `(org :type git :repo "https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git" :local-repo "org" :depth full :pre-build ,(list (concat (when (eq system-type 'berkeley-unix) "g") "make") "autoloads" "info" (concat "EMACS=" invocation-directory invocation-name)) :build (:not autoloads) :files (:defaults "lisp/*.el" ("etc/styles/" "etc/styles/*"))) ---- (again, you might use this like : (straight-use-package `(org type git ...))