Thanks a lot for those replies, which are quite helpful.

1. lch-org.el and lch-org-export.el together completes my conf about org,
which works before 8.0

2. The version I installed is 8.0.3 tar ball instead of git, usually I do
not prefer living at cutting edge.
    - M-x org-version --> "Org-mode version 8.0.3 (8.0.3-dist @
/Users/LooChao/Dropbox/.emacs.d/lisp/org/)"
    - Which reveals the org loaded is the one I installed, which is in my
lisp dir.
    - I agree with John's advice -- keep the new version separate and some
where in the load-path, which is ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/lisp/org/

3. M-x locate org-publish gives:
'/Applications/Documents/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/org-publish.elc',
indicating my installation has something wrong...
    still working on it.

Thanks,

Chao


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:45 AM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jun 21, 2013 2:43 AM, "Chao Lu" <loochao.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade to org 8.0.3 and met some difficulty that could
> not solve. Please help.
> >
> > 1. About installation
> > ----------------------------
> > Currently I'm using Emacs 24.3 under MacOSX mountain lion.
> > The org mode shipped with this version of emacs is 7.9
> >
> > I followed the instruction, successfully compiled org 8.0.3 and put all
> the *.elc file into my load-path.
> > Here is the first confusion:
> > Before I was using (require 'org-install) to get org code evaluated.
> Seems org-install is obsolete now,  then what should I put in my .emacs to
> get org loaded?
> >
> > Although I do know why, but seems my old settings get org(8.0.3) loaded,
> i.e. M-x org-version gives 8.0.3. But when I try ffap on (require
> 'org-publish) seems emacs wants to jump to
> "/Applications/Documents/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/org-publish.el.gz",
> which is the old org version shipped with Emacs itself.
> >
> > 2. About org-export
> > ----------------------------
> > I read through the upgrading notes from worg, but still haven't got a
> working configuration file, maybe that's the issue of my org installation.
> But is there's working conf on org-export that I can start with?
> >
> > I attached my  lch-org-export.el, could somebody have a look how to
> improve them to get 8.0.3 working.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Where exactly are the new org files installed? I don't see any load paths
> defined.
>
> I think the easiest/simplest/cleanest is to keep the hit version separate
> and just add the lisp dir to your load path vs mixing default org with
> installed git org files.
>
> I didn't catch any defined ox-* backends loaded either. For every backed
> you need to add it to org-export-backends or do:
>
> (require 'ox-backend)
>
> Lastly, you have old variable names in there... org-export-backend-* vars
> are now org-backend-*.
>
> I'd suggest reading the worg doc again!
>
> John
>
> > Chris
> >
> >
>