I do have my own local.mk (at the end of the message) where set things up OSXwise. I also add things for the new exporter and for R ORG_ADD_CONTRIB = org-e-* org-md org-export # e.g. the new exporter BTEST_EXTRA = ess-site # load ESS for R tests Here is more of my output: Mahler:org-mode neuwirth$ make up0 git remote update Fetching origin git pull Already up-to-date. Mahler:org-mode neuwirth$ make config ========= Emacs executable and Installation paths EMACS = /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs DESTDIR = ORGCM = dirall ORG_MAKE_DOC = info html pdf lispdir = /Applications/Emacs.App/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/org infodir = /Applications/Emacs.App/Contents/Resources/info datadir = /Applications/Emacs.App/Contents/Resources/etc/org testdir = /var/folders/cl/zktxb0v51ng7jfv0mspj2w940000gn/T//tmp-orgtest ========= Additional files from contrib/lisp org-e-ascii.el org-e-beamer.el org-e-groff.el org-e-html.el org-e-latex.el org-e-man.el org-e-odt.el org-e-publish.el org-e-texinfo.el org-md.el org-export.el ========= Org version make: Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-399-g2e9427.dirty => /Applications/Emacs.App/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/org) make up1 produces (towards the end) make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. rm -f org-version.el org-loaddefs.el org-version.elc org-loaddefs.elc install -m 644 -p ../contrib/lisp/org-e-ascii.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-beamer.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-groff.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-latex.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-man.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-odt.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-publish.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-texinfo.el ../contrib/lisp/org-md.el ../contrib/lisp/org-export.el . org-version: 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-399-g2e9427.dirty) Loading /Users/neuwirth/devel/org-mode/lisp/org-compat.el (source)... Loading /Users/neuwirth/devel/org-mode/mk/org-fixup.el (source)... Saving file /Users/neuwirth/devel/org-mode/lisp/org-version.el... Loading vc-git... Wrote /Users/neuwirth/devel/org-mode/lisp/org-version.el org-install: 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-399-g2e9427.dirty) Loading /Users/neuwirth/devel/org-mode/lisp/org-compat.el (source)... Loading /Users/neuwirth/devel/org-mode/mk/org-fixup.el (source)... Symbol's function definition is void: org-make-org-install make[1]: *** [org-loaddefs.el] Error 255 make: *** [all] Error 2 Here is my local.mk (which worked up until now)