fix: load freshness, wttrin path, compile-time package init

Set load-prefer-newer in early-init.el. Emacs was loading the older .elc files even when the .el source was newer, warning on every load but still using the stale byte code.

Point weather-config.el's wttrin :load-path at /home/cjennings/code/emacs-wttrin. The previous value was /home/cjennings/code/wttrin, which does not exist, so use-package could not load the package.

Add (package-initialize) to the Makefile compile target. Without it, batch byte-compile cannot see ELPA packages like git-gutter, git-timemachine, forge, and difftastic, which produced "Cannot load" warnings on every run.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/early-init.el b/early-init.el
index c1cd54c8b..9f90f292e 100644
--- a/early-init.el
+++ b/early-init.el
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@
 (setq native-comp-deferred-compilation nil)  ;; Disable async/deferred compilation
 (setq native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors nil)  ;; Silence async warnings
 
+;; ------------------------------- Load Freshness ------------------------------
+;; Prefer newer .el source over stale .elc byte-compiled files. Without this,
+;; Emacs loads the .elc even when the .el has been modified more recently and
+;; only emits a warning. Setting this in early-init.el ensures init.el itself
+;; also benefits.
+
+(setq load-prefer-newer t)
+
 ;; --------------------------- Warning Notifications ---------------------------
 
 ;; skip warnings but notify me about errors