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

[Rainer M Krug]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

OK - thanks a lot for all your valuable info - I will use org uncompiled
then and see how it goes,

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Cheers,

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