Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > Bernt Hansen writes: >> I tried that... and installed emacs under Cygwin (so it can find emacs >> to run emacs -batch) and then had to fix permissions on org-install >> (since it's on a windows drive) before make autoloads worked. > > It's preferrable to use NTEmacs for this step, even though the .elc > files should be compatible. > >> I didn't spend any time trying to correct install locations in the >> makefile. I run org-mode without compiling any sources normally and >> having to do the extra make step each time I move around the source tree >> isn't going to be very enjoyable. I have no idea if I need to rerun >> this make autoloads command on a regular basis or not. > > Yes and no. As long as all the autoloaded functions continue to be in > the same load-file and their names don't change and there are no new > functions that need to be autoloaded, org-install.el effectively isn't > going to change. But that's a deception, since there is no way you > could determine if it should have been changed unless you actually > generate it anew. > > As I said, I'm still working to provide specifically for the case that > org-version.el is missing (which would normally produce an autoloaded > defconst org-version...) and injecting an org-version from looking at > the git version of the work-tree (if it finds one). That will also > encompass an (autoloaded) function (with the load-file located in > UTILITIES/ most likely) that you can call in emacs to re-generate > org-install.el, since org-install.el is absolutely not optional. > > So going forward make will not be a requirement for simply using org > either from Git or from tarball anymore.
Thanks for the detailed explanation Achim. I hope my problem report on this issue wasn't taken as a complaint - it wasn't intended that way -- I just wanted to report what I perceived to be a problem and at the time I didn't have time to mess with the setup so I just reverted to a previous working state in git. I'll redo my make autoloads after pointing at NT Emacs (tomorrow) and will remove emacs from Cygwin since the only reason I installed it in the first place was to try to get make autoloads to complete. Your efforts on cleaning up the Makefile system for org-mode are really appreciated. I'll just add 'make autoloads' to my list of things to do when updating my master branch in git. Regards, Bernt
