Re: Installing org-mode from git without byte-compiling

[Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>]

Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:

> Bernt, Eric Schulte, and others,
>
> Bernt recently mentioned to me on #org-mode that he doesn't
> byte-compile org-mode, which makes it much easier to read backtraces.
> I'm trying to use Eric Schulte's starter-kit fork, and the
> instructions suggest compiling org-mode.[1]
>
> Inspecting the Makefile, I see that I probably want to make the info
> documentation and have that installed automatically, I just don't want
> to byte-compile the lisp.
>
> 1) Is there a flag or something I can pass to make in order to skip
> byte-compiling but perform the rest of the script tasks? (The Makefile
> docstring suggests 'make doc' to make html and PDF docs. Will it also
> make the info docs and install them automatically?)
>
> 2) Out of curiosity, is 'make install' ever necessary when the local
> git directory is sourced into the load-path?
>

make info
make install-info

Thanks and Regards
Noorul