On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 20:09, Glenn Morris <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jambunathan K wrote: > >> When compiling with package manager, the compilation happens from within >> a running Emacs session and very likely the "old" Org files are already >> loaded in to the runtime "inadvertently" by the user either by looking >> at the org agenda for the day or may be by just viewing an Org file or >> by the plain old (require 'org-whatever) out of habit in .emacs. > > There's your problem. The only way to reliably compile, especially > something where an old version might already be loaded, is to use a > fresh Emacs instance. There's no reason the "package manager" could not > spawn a separate Emacs in batch-mode as a sub-job to do the compilation. > > cc-mode tries to have some voodoo to get around this, but please, please > don't go down that road. > > I guess nobody ever expected the package manager to be used to load a > different version of something that was already in Emacs. >
I am sorry to be asking a stupid question, but then, wouldn't restart Emacs fix the issue and have the new compiled org files loaded? In my case, that didn't seem to happen either (even though load-library showed org-compat to be from ELPA).
