Re: make error when making org fro git

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>]

I just tried to "make" the git version of org-mode inside emacs.
That worked without problems.

All my problems before I ran into because I tried to "make" under windows native!

So sorry for the noise. Everything then works as expected - I can use the git version!

Rainer



Carsten Dominik schrieb:
> 
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
> 
>> yes, that made it work.
>> I did not choose to use emacs 21 - it is debian 4 default version.
>>
>> Actually I misused my debain system to try to get a "make" for my
>> windows xp where I cannot get anything to work natively from git.
>> Doing a "make autoloads" I try to use the lisp directory under windows.
>> Hope that will work.
> 
> That should work.
> 
>>
>>
>> With the old org "system" I could simply use the lisp files as given
>> but with the new structure I have to create the org-install.el file 
>> which is not working under windows.
> 
> Well, this is not fully correct.
> 
> First of all, by the "old" system, I guess you mean the distribution 
> files in the form of zip or tar archives?  These will still contain the 
> org-install.el file and in this way this is not changed at all from the 
> old system.  The git repo is the bleeding edge development version.  For 
> technical reasons I cannot distribute a derived file like org-install.el 
> with this repository.  And to fully use the git repo you will indeed 
> need a system that can run a few basic development tools, like make - 
> not asking too much in my opinion.
> 
> We have not had a release now for a while because the splitting 
> operation is a major undertaking.  Once that is done, I will have more 
> regular releases again, and then you can use the release files to stay 
> close to the development version.
> 
> Furthermore, I do have a plan B for using the git repo, and that is 
> simply doing (require 'org) instead of (require org-install).  This is 
> not the preferred method because it does load the rather large Org 
> system into Emacs each time you start emacs.  The preferred method is to 
> use (require 'org-install) for a distribution, and *nothing* when Org is 
> distributed with Emacs, because there it is fully autoloaded.
> 
> However, there are enough people who have never read the installation 
> instructions close enough to know that in a downloaed version (require 
> org-install) is the correct method to activate Org.  Also, 
> unfortunately, the excellent tutorial by David O'Toole, for many people 
> the entry gate into Org, explains to use (require 'org).  Therefore I am 
> trying to set things up in a way that also this will work.  If it does 
> not, you can report this as a bug and I will fix it.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> 
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