make error when making org fro git

make error when making org fro git

[Rainer Stengele]

Hi all,

I want to make org-mode from git and get this error:


While compiling toplevel forms in file /u/tmp/org-mode/lisp/org-archive.el:
   !! Symbol's function definition is void ((declare))
Done
make: *** [lisp/org-archive.elc] Error 1



Is that my fault or a bug?

Rainer

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debian 4.0
GNU Emacs 21.4.1

Re: make error when making org fro git

[Manish]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I want to make org-mode from git and get this error:
>
>
>  While compiling toplevel forms in file /u/tmp/org-mode/lisp/org-archive.el:
>   !! Symbol's function definition is void ((declare))
>  Done
>  make: *** [lisp/org-archive.elc] Error 1
>
>
>
>  Is that my fault or a bug?
>

Not sure about the error but latest pull (commit
1018c67ebb4b11b1120410d2bf2e0eca1965e458) compiles cleanly on my
system (Cygwin+Emacs 22.1.1)

-- Manish

Re: make error when making org fro git

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to make org-mode from git and get this error:
>
>
> While compiling toplevel forms in file /u/tmp/org-mode/lisp/org- 
> archive.el:
>  !! Symbol's function definition is void ((declare))
> Done
> make: *** [lisp/org-archive.elc] Error 1

It is the fault of emacs 21, I think.

try editing the file org-macs.el and delete all lines starting with  
'(declare',
then remove all .elc files with "make cleanelc", and try "make" again.

- Carsten

Re: make error when making org fro git

[Rainer Stengele]

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.

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.


Thanx,

Rainer

Carsten Dominik schrieb:
> 
> On Apr 11, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to make org-mode from git and get this error:
>>
>>
>> While compiling toplevel forms in file 
>> /u/tmp/org-mode/lisp/org-archive.el:
>>  !! Symbol's function definition is void ((declare))
>> Done
>> make: *** [lisp/org-archive.elc] Error 1
> 
> It is the fault of emacs 21, I think.
> 
> try editing the file org-macs.el and delete all lines starting with 
> '(declare',
> then remove all .elc files with "make cleanelc", and try "make" again.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
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Re: make error when making org fro git

[Carsten Dominik]

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

Re: make error when making org fro git

[Rainer Stengele]

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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