Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick fix.  However the problem still exists on my
>> computer (running "GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0, Carbon
>> Version 1.6.0) of 2008-10-31 on leopard.local").
>>
>> Here is what I got:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> $ pwd
>> /Users/bcui/elisp/org-mode
>> $ make update
>> ...
>> In end of data:
>> org-compat.el:335:1:Warning: the function `add-local-hook' is not
>> known to be
>>    defined.
>> Wrote /Users/bcui/elisp/org-mode/lisp/org-compat.elc
>> emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -eval "(progn (add-to-list (quote load- 
>> path) (expand-file-name \"./lisp/\")) (add-to-list (quote load-path)
>> \"/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp\"))" -f batch-byte-compile lisp/
>> org-exp.el
>> Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org.el' newer than
>> byte-compiled file
>> Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-footnote.el' newer
>> than byte-compiled file
>> Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-agenda.el' newer
>> than byte-compiled file
>>
>> In toplevel form:
>> lisp/org-exp.el:31:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: org- 
>> protecting-blocks
>> make[1]: *** [lisp/org-exp.elc] Error 1
>> make: *** [update] Error 2
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> In directory "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/" I have some .el files
>> that are newer than the .elc files, but since I don't use them, I
>> don't
>> think they are related.
>
> Well, something must be wrong here, because in org-exp.el I have
>
> (require 'org)
> (require 'org-agenda)
> (require 'org-exp-blocks)    ; this is line 31
>
> org.el gets loaded before org-exp-blocks...
>

Found the problem.  Some of the old elisp files (for version 6.24) in my
"/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/" were loaded before the versions in
"/Users/bcui/elisp/org-mode".

Here is a patch to Makefile to fix this (just switch the order of two
directories):