Re: byte-code: Error (org-odt): Cannot find factory styles files. Aborting.

[Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Johnny
>
>>> It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an
>>> easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt
>>> auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention.
>>
>> Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share
>> direcory.
>
> You MUST NOT copy files by hand. You MUST use 'make install' to copy the
> files.
>
> There are two variables - lispdir and datadir - that determine where the
> lisp and styles files go. Here is the unmodified Makefile.
>
> ,---- Makefile
> | # Where local software is found
> | prefix=/usr/local
> | 
> | # Where local lisp files go
> | lispdir   = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp
> | 
> | # Where data files go
> | # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter.
> | # See comments under DATAFILES.
> | datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc
> `----
>
> If you do M-x locate-library RET org-odt RET on your current
> installation, you are likely to see the following message:
> ,----
> | Library is file "/usr/local/share/emacs/org-mode" as directory.
> `----
>
> Based on the above setting, you can modify the default lispdir as
> follows:
>
> ,---- Makefile
> | # Where local lisp files go
> | lispdir   = $(prefix)/share/emacs/org-mode <================
> | 
> | # Where data files go
> | # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter.
> | # See comments under DATAFILES.
> | datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc
> `----
>
> The style files will then get automatically get copied to
> /usr/local/share/emacs/etc.
>
> It's NOT important what the values for lispdir and datadir are. What is
> VERY IMPORTANT is that you use "make install" to copy the files.
>
>>
>>> - What OS/Distrib are you using
>>
>> Fedora 16.
>
> I am on Windows. I don't use any of the Gnu/Linuxes.
>
> I am not sure what Fedora policy for installation is. May be org-7.8.03
> hasn't hit Fedora yet and that's the reason why you chose to download
> and install by hand.
>
> FYI, Gentoo uses the following values for lispdir and datadir.
> prefix = /usr
> lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/
> datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/
>
> See
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-12/msg00800.html.

Thanks Jambunathan and Eric for your advice! This seems completely
reasonable and a self induced error; I will try reinstall with this
method in a couple of days and improve my makefile-editing / git
updating skills! 

Cheers
-- 
Johnny