Thanks Jonathan!

Yes, I had commented out =(require 'org-install)= .

I'd taken the FAQ instructions for ELPA installations to apply
more broadly than they do:

;; Functionality of Org-mode's org-install.el is supplanted by
;; Package Manager's org-autoloads.el. Since Package Manager
;; autoloads Org-mode, the following line (require 'org-install) in
;; your .emacs is no longer required and can be safely removed.
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html


Now M-x org-version gives (correctly):

   Org-mode version 7.8.11 (release_7.8.11-16-ge67734
   @ g:/dev/bin/emacs/.emacs.d/org-7.8.11-dev/lisp/)

Thanks again!

-BC


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Jonathan Leech-Pepin
   <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I haven't had any issues with Org and Cygwin lately.  I did however
come across this issue on a fresh install of Debian last week.

I was able to resolve it by adding =(require 'org-install)= to the
initialization (or calling it manually from the *scratch* buffer)
before checking the version.

Do you have (require 'org-install) in your initialization file
already?  And if not does it fix the issue?

Regards,

Jonathan

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:15 AM, William Crandall <bc3141592@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I know this has been an issue:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-05/msg00552.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-04/msg01144.html
>
> So I was glad to get Cygwin to make the current org-mode master (git),
> seemingly with success. But restarting emacs brings up:
>
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-release)
>   org-release()
>   org-version()
>   (if (fboundp (quote org-version)) (org-version) "(Unknown)")
>   (format "Generated by Org mode %s in Emacs %s." (if (fboundp
>         (quote org-version)) (org-version) "(Unknown)") emacs-version)
>   eval((format "Generated by Org mode %s in Emacs %s." (if (fboundp
>         (quote org-version)) (org-version) "(Unknown)") emacs-version))
>