Re: Bug: org-install must precede customization [7.02trans]

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:55 PM, Anupam Sengupta wrote:

>>>>>> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> Is it merely the autoload of org-capture-templates, or is this a
>> general rule for everything in org-install?  I think I'm perfectly
>> happy to work with the dependency in place as long as it's
>> documented.  For most people it wouldn't be an issue since
>> custom-* puts its custom-set-variables call at the end of the
>> file.  I think you need to be using something like initsplit to
>> see the problem.
>
> The problem also comes up when a separate file is used for storing
> the `custom-set-variables', i.e., something like:
>
> (setq custom-file  "~/emacs-custom.el")
> (load custom-file)
>
> Because of the autoload, these statements now need to be at the very
> end of the init.el file.  Not a big problem, but still something
> that needs to be known (and was not required prior to 7.02).

It is no longer required now.  Removing the autoload cookie fixes the  
problem.  But you need to re-create org-install.el by running make.

- Carsten