I asked a similar question earlier. 

I did though have to point to the lisp dir of org-mode git clone specifically and add the "org-install" line as mentioned. 

If you look at my question a few days ago there is no 7.8.3. 

'Mash
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Ciaran,

as far as I remember you need to call

(require 'org-install)

to make emacs load your installation instead of the default one.
Add it to your emacs config and check out org-version again

Also you might be interesting to use the emacs-package manager which
is a rather new feature of emacs.
Org-mode versions there might be a good compromise between stability
and up-to-dateness. Check here for details

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#installing-via-elpa


Torsten



On 10 August 2012 07:28, Ciaran Mulloy <crmulloy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm relatively new to org-mode and a non-techie but grappling by and large with
> the steep learning curve and enjoying it!
>
> I had a simple question that I haven't been able to get an easy answer to.
> I've just compiled the latest build of emacs 24.1 from the gnu.org website which
> currently has the latest build of org-mode (7.8.11 I believe).
>
> I've also cloned the bleeding edge git repository onto my PC (as I'm interested
> in getting the benefit of recent patches for exporting to Taskjuggler 3) and did
> a make into my ~/elisp directory.
>
> My question: how do I validate that I have the latest build version of org-mode
> running as when I do a 'M-x org-version' I just get the answer '7.8.11'.
>
> I've put a line in my .emacs file to add my ~/elisp directory to my load path
> however it's not clear how I get emacs to load the newer files I've compiled to
> my ~/elisp directory over the existing emacs 24.1 build.
>
> I've gone through the FAQ section on the org-mode website and couldn't seem to
> find any hints for my issue.
>
> Ciaran
>
>