RE: org-assert-version considered harmful

[Cook, Malcolm]

Hello,

 

I found this recent thread researching why my strategy for staying abreast with org head had started failing with invalid-function "org-assert-version"

 

My strategy had been to build org initially with

 

 

` cd ~/.emacs.d && git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/org-mode.git &&   cd org-mode && make autoloads && make`

 

and ensure this clone of org was picked up in my "~/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp by including the following in my .init.el very early (right after bootstrapping the package system and use-package):

 

(use-package

  :pin manual

  :load-path "~/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp"

)

 

Then, when I occasionally wished to update org, I would

 

`cd ~/.emacs.d/org-mode && git pull && make autoloads && make`

 

Recently I started getting errors invalid-function "org-assert-version".

 

Upon cursory reading of this thread I guessed that I could fix them by adding a `make clean` to my update mantra.

 

It worked.

 

Am I advised to do otherwise?  Is there a best/better practice?

 

Thanks,

 

~Malcolm