Re: storing link doesn't work from Gnus

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> On Nov 27, 2006, at 21:24, Bernard Adrian wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> a écrit :
>>
>>> Could someone make a backtrace of this error, with loading uncompiled
>>> versions of gnus-sum.el and org.el?  The org-mode manual describes how
>>> to do this, basically
>>>
>>> emacs -l /path/to/org.el -l /path/to/gnus-sum.el
>>
>> Ok. The problem for me were in the path : the files org.el,
>> org-install.el, org-mouse.el and org-publish were still in the path
>> for emacs 22.0.51 and not in the new path for emacs 22.0.91.
>>
>> However emacs 22.0.51 is no more present neither on my system, nor
>> in the load-path.
>>
>> I copied the org-*.el in /usr/share/emacs/22.0.91/lisp/texmodes/ and
>> now 'C-c l' works fine.
>>
>> Why is /usr/share/emacs/22.0.51/lisp/texmodes/ still present on my
>> machine ? I don't know. However i removed this version before loading
>> emacs-snapshot (22.0.91). Curious.
>
> Because the Makefile that comes with org-mode does create the
> directory where it is supposed to put those files, and obviously
> you have given this specific path in the header of the Makefile.
>
> For the ease of maintenance it may be better to install org-mode
> into a directory that does not depend on the specific version of Emacs
> you are using.  This could be either a directory in your own home
> directory (then you would have to add the path to the Emacs load path).
> Or it could be something like /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp - you
> need
> to check your system to find out where the version-independent site-lisp
> directory is located.
>
> - Carsten

I've been putting mine into ~/.emacs.d/org, where org is symbolic link to
~/.emacs.d/org-4.54, etc.  It has been working just fine that way, and is easy
to maintain...

Dave