From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:23:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87fw7aen59.fsf@altern.org> References: <87393a28bk.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87k3wmzql1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87zk5ieno0.fsf@altern.org> <87bohyzpxb.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5MtL-0002vI-EA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:23:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5MtJ-0001Dn-9L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:23:35 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:58293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5MtI-0001Df-Vd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:23:33 -0400 Received: by wibhn17 with SMTP id hn17so1642405wib.12 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:23:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bohyzpxb.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:18:08 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Achim Gratz writes: > Bastien writes: >> There is something I don't understand here: the version *is* in >> org-7.9.tar.gz and org-7.9.zip with lisp/org-version.el. > > Yes, that is for when you would want to run uncompiled from the unpacked > tarball. Okay. > I'll add > a file to the tarball that just defines these two variables and include > that when absolutely no version is defined. Can't we just have this in default.mk? Do we need yet another file? > If these variables are > still undefined I continue to fall back to "N/A". The version from a > tarball can't change, so it's OK to fix it like that I think. Okay. Thanks, -- Bastien