Re: Opendocument export causes error

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

> I will go through your detailed list of suggestions a bit
> later. Thanks a lot again for your help!

I hope you do revert with your observations on broken setup.  

In my experience, most users don't :-).

There is some confusion around the area of macros and autoloads.
Something is amiss.  Only non-programmers seem to run in to this and it
has been very difficult to understand what is happening on their setup,
without their co-operation.

Here is another suggestion.  A bit easy one though.  This will be
archived and will serve as a written hint to debug macro/autoload
issues.  

When the err happens,

1. Load Emacs like this.  Adjust the `-L's.  Note also the -Q.

   emacs --debug-init  -L ~/src/org-mode/lisp  -L
   ~/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp -Q

2. M-x load-library RET org-odt RET

3. M-x ielm RET

   Here is a sample session both for org-odt and org-e-odt.  Sample
   illustrates the sequence of events that led org-compat.el to be
   loaded.

   The sequence below is courtesy this suggestion/thread:
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-11/msg00227.html


   So the load chain is:
     org-compat <= org <= org-exp <= org-lparse <= org-odt

    ,----
    | *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-compat 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-exp.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-exp 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-lparse.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-lparse 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-odt.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-odt 'require)
    | nil
    `----

   So the load chain is:
     org-compat <= org <= org-element <= org-export <= org-e-odt
     
    ,----
    | *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-compat 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-element.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-element 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-export.el"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-export 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-e-odt.elc"
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-e-odt 'require)
    | nil
    | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-macs 'require)
    | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
    `----

ps: I hope I am invoking `symbol-file' properly.

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