Hi Achim,

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 17:34, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote:
> suvayu ali writes:
>> The above recipe works. But just "make", leaves the working tree without
>> lisp/org-install.el. From the log I see it explicitly deletes it, but
>> doesn't generate it again. A subsequent "make autoloads" is required to
>> get a working org setup. Is this expected behaviour?
>
> This is intentional.  The autoloads are generated just before
> installing, since that's where they are needed.  I really don't want to
> encourage further use of the git worktree as the "org installation",
> although it sort of works if you do a "make autoloads".
>

Thanks for the clarifications. :)

> You can now easily keep multiple installations within the org directory
> if so desired (I do this myself for testing).  Using the worktree
> instead can lead to very hard to track bugs when the autoload files get
> out of sync with the sources.  This is the reason I always remove them
> before compilation and I should probably remove them just after
> installation as well.

Okay I'll try this out.

-- 
Suvayu

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