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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: makefile for v. 7.9.1 on Windows 7 doesn't work
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:01:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6286.1347307304@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> of "Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:48:26 CDT." <CA+M2ft8S+-80NyrXhNCF-7JhvRAVjoRsKtDXMtqKuTst7uyFpw@mail.gmail.com>

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> > John Hendy writes:
> >>> I don't really know where your other problems come from, but it seems
> >>> that whatever you are invoking as "emacs" fails to properly set up the
> >>> load path.  You can try and replace the "-L" option with "--directory".
> >>
> >> I'll definitely try this. Where should the load path point? My emacs
> >> dir, or the org git dir?
> >
> > What I meant was that if you add something to load-path via this option,
> > make sure it actually turns up _first_ in the load-path.  Like
> >
> > emacs -L blafasel
> >
> > should then have "blafasel" as the first component in load-path.  If
> > emacs is invoked via a wrapper scriptit may inject other options in
> > places that subvert this.  Another possibility is that an environment
> > variable EMACS_LOADPATH is set (or gets set by some wrapper) when emacs
> > is started, this would also explain why the load-path doesn't end up
> > what it's supposed to be.
> 
> Thanks, Achim. I just now sent a fresh note to the list about this
> specific issue, as I pretty much derailed this into a discussion on
> that error. It seemed fitting to make a new thread and I included a
> lot more details. I think the issue comes down to the function
> =org-find-library-dir=, not the load path. I could be wrong. I don't
> know where =org-find-library-dir= is defined.
> 

C-h f org-find-library-dir RET shows that it's a macro in org-compat.el.
Macros are a bit tricky -- see (info "(elisp) Compiling macros")
for the gory details. Might this be the problem here?

Nick

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-10 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07  7:13 makefile for v. 7.9.1 on Windows 7 doesn't work Bostjan Vilfan
2012-09-07 12:33 ` John Hendy
2012-09-07 12:45   ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2012-09-07 13:05     ` John Hendy
2012-09-07 13:14       ` Bastien
2012-09-07 13:27         ` John Hendy
2012-09-07 13:32       ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2012-09-07 19:00   ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-10 17:59     ` John Hendy
2012-09-10 19:24       ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-10 19:48         ` John Hendy
2012-09-10 19:58           ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-10 20:01           ` Nick Dokos [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-07 16:42 Bostjan Vilfan
2012-09-08  6:56 ` Bastien

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