From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:45:54 +0200 Message-ID: <878vd2nlef.fsf@altern.org> References: <87393a28bk.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87k3wmzql1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87zk5ieno0.fsf@altern.org> <87bohyzpxb.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87fw7aen59.fsf@altern.org> <874nnqjfgy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5XaM-00074d-J7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:48:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5XaL-00088n-Hv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:48:42 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:52036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5XaL-00088g-3j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:48:41 -0400 Received: by weys10 with SMTP id s10so1972240wey.0 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:48:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874nnqjfgy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:10:37 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Achim Gratz writes: > Bastien writes: >>> I'll add >>> a file to the tarball that just defines these two variables and include >>> that when absolutely no version is defined. >> >> Can't we just have this in default.mk? Do we need yet another file? > > That would mean I'd have to change default.mk while building the tarball > and then change it back afterwards. There's no way I can make that > completely foolproof, so I'll rather just generate a file specifically > for the tarball that I can throw away any time without having to keep > state. Let me know if I understand correctly: that's because you don't want default.mk to contain a manually inserted ORGVERSION variable, right? Otherwise I don't see the problem with having a fallback ORGVERSION variable in default.mk (which I'll happily insert manually, to have a taste of the Good Old Days, when (defconst org-version "...") was still in org.el... :) -- Bastien