Re: Can I share ~/.emacs.d/elpa with two machines?

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:34:15PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:54:24AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> >> 
> >> Thanks - makes perfect sense. My only question is the contrib
> >> directory. I assume I simply also have to copy the files in the same
> >> version specific lisp dir?
> >
> > Add something like this to local.mk (if non-existent, create one)
> >
> >   ORG_ADD_CONTRIB = org-notmuch ox-groff ox-koma-letter
> 
> Thanks - haven't looked at that file yet. So than the specified files
> would be compiled and put in the contrib directory or copied in the lisp directory?

Yes, see the documentation on worg for details.

http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-build-system.html#sec-4-1-2

> Ok - so the sequence :
> 
> make clean

When running uncompiled, this might not be needed; not sure.

> make autoloads
> make doc
> make info

If you do `make doc', the above is redundant.  See the build system page
I linked above.

> would build all needed files incl documentation?

Yes.  AFAIU, building pdf docs, or info pages have no connection with
compiling Org.

> Would compiling have any advantages over un-compiled, besides of speed?

Not that I know of.  In fact, it would be easier to debug in case you
hit bugs.  Given that you follow master, that's probably not uncommon.

> But as org-mode does not do any exorbitant calculations, I would assume
> that the only workflows where the speed issue comes in is tangling and
> publishing and org-lint?

I don't know.  Nicolas, and maybe Rasmus are better equipped to answer
these questions.  You might want to ask on the Org list.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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