Re: Contrib missing from (Cygwin) Emacs

["Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Achim,

Achim Gratz wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>> Wait, wait, wait...
>>
>> When reading the backtrace even more carefully, this 3rd observation is not
>> what's said by the error message: "../contrib" is not (I guess Achim is right)
>> the problem here, but the fact that `find-library-name' fails to find "org".
>>
>> So, the problem comes down to the fact that the following...
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>   (require 'find-func)
>>   (find-library-name "org")
>> #+end_src
>>
>> ... does fail with the latest Cygwin [1]:
>
> I remember... that bug has since been fixed in Org.  As a workaround,
> install the emacs-el package which contains the source files to prevent
> this from happening with that particular version of Emacs/Org on Cygwin.

Exactly what you said... Perfectly seen!

Though, I'm not sure to understand why that solves the issue... except if the
emacs-el package gets updated more often that Emacs, then?

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown-HmMyXyqgL2CVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Subject: Re: Org mode package too old in Cygwin Emacs
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:02:56 -0500

On 2/1/2013 4:23 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:

> I'm forwarding here a request of Bastien Guerry, maintainer of Org mode, after
> looking at a problem I have when running Cygwin Emacs:
>
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> From: Bastien <bzg-whniv8GeeGkdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
> Subject: Re: Contrib missing from (Cygwin) Emacs
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:20:00 +0100
>
> Hi Sébastien,
>
> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't find library org")
>>    signal(error ("Can't find library org"))
>>    error("Can't find library %s" "org")
>>    find-library-name("org")
>
> Please report the problem to Cygwin people. They can either upgrade to a more
> recent version of Emacs, or try to sort out the problem with
> (find-library-name "org"). I cannot do anything from here, `find-library-name'
> is not in latest Org.

Cygwin's emacs is the latest upstream release.  The problem is that the 
current Org distributed with emacs requires the presence of elisp source 
files, which are not installed by default on Cygwin.  Cygwin users of 
the current Org have to install the emacs-el package to get the elisp 
source files.

Ken
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Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban