From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian van den Broek Subject: Re: difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:08:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87393a28bk.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5LjR-0006mn-96 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:09:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5LjQ-0006Xt-5q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:09:17 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:64648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5LjQ-0006Xi-0V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:09:16 -0400 Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so6363395iah.0 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:09:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87393a28bk.fsf@Rainer.invalid> 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 25 August 2012 13:24, Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian van den Broek writes: >> I've seemingly managed to install org 7.9, but M-x org-version yields >> Org-mode version N/A (N/A @ /home/brian/.emacsd/site-lisp/) >> >> The details: > > You could've saved yourself a lot of writing if you'd just posted what > > make config-all > > prints out. But the only way this output from org-verison can be > produced by a compiled version of Org is if you install with make, but > without Git (like you later tell us you've done). In this case, you > need to tell make the version you're installing since it cannot ask Git > for it: > > make ORGVERSION=7.9 GITVERSION=org-7.9-3-ga986d3 install > Thanks Achim. That does seem to fix the manifested problem. (make install-info seems to leave with with the 6.33x docs, but that's a problem for another day and thread, I expect.) Sorry for the verbosity. As I expect is clear, I don't have a good handle on what is going on and opted for risking too much information to avoid the need to tease more out of me through a few rounds of responses. I would suggest that the installation instructions at be updated, as there one finds nothing about the need for ORGVERSION and GITVERTSION arguments to make. (While I know patches are welcome, I am reluctant to try to patch docs for an issue that I don't understand well.) Thanks and best, Brian vdB