Re: [O] Problem with autoloads

[Jambunathan K]

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:

> Skip Collins <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is there any more progress on finding and fixing this problem with org
>> and emacs24? I just built the development version of Aquamacs (GNU
>> Emacs 24.0.50.3). The problem with the way org autoloads lisp files is
>> present. Should this patch be applied to org sources?
>
> I've cloned emacs.git and compiled Emacs24 yesterday just to find out.
> I've not drilled down to the bottom of this yet, but it is a deliberate
> change in autoload.el and I'm not sure if the change in behaviour that
> org-mode affects was intended or not.  If anybody frequents the Emacs
> developer list, you might ask Chong Yidong (I've already sent him an
> email with that question, but the devlist might be quicker).

May be these changes deserve a NEWS entry - C-h n 
The change has caused lots of confusion at least in this list.

> Anyway, I intend to fix this during the restructuring of the Makefile by
> building those targets in a sub-make that runs in ./lisp (unless I run
> into a problem with that).  Meanwhile the patch that has been posted
> fixes the issue and does not break on older Emacsen, so this should
> probably be applied by Bastien.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

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