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From: Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version
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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:16:44 -0400
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On 25 August 2012 16:12, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
>
>>> I would suggest that the installation instructions at
>>> <http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html#Installation> be updated,
>>> as there one finds nothing about the need for ORGVERSION and
>>> GITVERSION arguments to make.
>>
>> I hadn't really considered installation from tarballs down to that
>> detail.  I may just add some code to recognize that situation and put
>> the version information into the tarball itself.
>
> There is something I don't understand here: the version *is* in
> org-7.9.tar.gz and org-7.9.zip with lisp/org-version.el.
>
> I assumed that, in the absence of git, `make' would rely on this.
>
> True?
>
> --
>  Bastien


Hi Bastien,

I don't warrant that all else is in order on my system, but for me, it did not.

Best,

Brian