I routinely end my emacs builds with "make install". After doing the same thing this time, after startup. *Messages* contained WARNING: No org-loaddefs.el file could be found from where org.el is loaded. You need to run "make" or "make autoloads" from Org lisp directory These messages come from org.el, which I load very early in my init. The rest of my startup ran as usual, but org-mode was mostly dysfunctional. The problem is that org.el expects the exact filename of org-loaddefs.el, but after make install I'm left with only org-loaddefs.el.gz and org-loaddefs.elc in the install dir. The fix seemed simple, just allow the normal machinery to load the elc or el.gz if necessary. Patch attached. I have not examined whether there are reasons to prefer exactly the .el version, but loading the elc works fine for me so far. 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