From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Stengele Subject: Re: make error when making org fro git Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:20:30 +0200 Message-ID: <48033DFE.4030604@diplan.de> References: <061B7748-4C42-485F-AFBB-08E748A7FCCF@science.uva.nl> <4800DFF5.7090901@diplan.de> <09B990DD-6039-433B-AD7B-7E737D88C4FC@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlMjj-0007cd-Ok for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:20:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlMjj-0007c6-1f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:20:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlMji-0007bw-T2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:20:34 -0400 Received: from ns.diplan.de ([212.34.188.4] helo=mail.diplan.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlMji-0004aS-ED for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:20:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <09B990DD-6039-433B-AD7B-7E737D88C4FC@science.uva.nl> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I just tried to "make" the git version of org-mode inside emacs. That worked without problems. All my problems before I ran into because I tried to "make" under windows native! So sorry for the noise. Everything then works as expected - I can use the git version! Rainer Carsten Dominik schrieb: > > On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote: > >> yes, that made it work. >> I did not choose to use emacs 21 - it is debian 4 default version. >> >> Actually I misused my debain system to try to get a "make" for my >> windows xp where I cannot get anything to work natively from git. >> Doing a "make autoloads" I try to use the lisp directory under windows. >> Hope that will work. > > That should work. > >> >> >> With the old org "system" I could simply use the lisp files as given >> but with the new structure I have to create the org-install.el file >> which is not working under windows. > > Well, this is not fully correct. > > First of all, by the "old" system, I guess you mean the distribution > files in the form of zip or tar archives? These will still contain the > org-install.el file and in this way this is not changed at all from the > old system. The git repo is the bleeding edge development version. For > technical reasons I cannot distribute a derived file like org-install.el > with this repository. And to fully use the git repo you will indeed > need a system that can run a few basic development tools, like make - > not asking too much in my opinion. > > We have not had a release now for a while because the splitting > operation is a major undertaking. Once that is done, I will have more > regular releases again, and then you can use the release files to stay > close to the development version. > > Furthermore, I do have a plan B for using the git repo, and that is > simply doing (require 'org) instead of (require org-install). This is > not the preferred method because it does load the rather large Org > system into Emacs each time you start emacs. The preferred method is to > use (require 'org-install) for a distribution, and *nothing* when Org is > distributed with Emacs, because there it is fully autoloaded. > > However, there are enough people who have never read the installation > instructions close enough to know that in a downloaed version (require > org-install) is the correct method to activate Org. Also, > unfortunately, the excellent tutorial by David O'Toole, for many people > the entry gate into Org, explains to use (require 'org). Therefore I am > trying to set things up in a way that also this will work. If it does > not, you can report this as a bug and I will fix it. > > - Carsten > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >