Re: [PATCH] Footnote export to LaTeX "wrong number of arguments" error

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>> Would this have an effect if I don't ever run 'make install'?
>
> Since it is added to the load-path during compile it might have
> undesirable side-effects if an older org-mode resides at that path.
>
> But, I'm now getting these errors too since I have started Emacs
> freshly.  The offending commit is 9ff7f80f51a by Eric Schulte, where he
> wraps the defvar definition into eval-when-compile.  This change defines
> the variable during compile and gets rid of that error, but then it is
> not defined when loading org-mode the first time.  If you do an
> org-reload this is rectified (which is why I didn't see the error
> yesterday.
>
> The original error during compile-time comes from using the variable in
> a macro expansion.  I don't think this is the right thing to do since we
> would not want to expand the variable at compile time (it would not be
> variable anymore after compilation).  The attached patch seems to
> correct this for me.
>
>
>
> Let us know if that fixes things for you and I'll let Eric decide if he
> pushes that patch or something different, depending on what he really
> wanted to do.
>

Thanks for the checking on this. Yes, M-x org-reload fixes this for
me. No exporting the first time, reload, then successful export the
second time with  no error about the babel variable.

Thanks for all your work,
John

>
> Regards,
> Achim.
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