On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:31, Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Stelian > >> I am sorry to be asking a stupid question, but then, wouldn't restart >> Emacs fix the issue and have the new compiled org files loaded? In my >> case, that didn't seem to happen either (even though load-library >> showed org-compat to be from ELPA). > > locate-library doesn't show what is *already* loaded. It will only shows > what *will* be loaded. > > The most important thing during package compilation is this: Make sure > there is no running instance of Org in any form. If this condition is > not satisfied then to-be-installed files will be compiled with old > definitions of macro. This is not what we want. We want the new files to > be compiled with new macro definitions. > > Do things work for you when you start a *minimal* Emacs and *then* do > M-x list-packages -> install? You don't have to apply Glenn's patch to > get the desired behaviour (I am assuming here that you are probably not > that comfortable working with patches). >
I will try with a minimal Emacs first. You're right, I don't know my way around patches that well :-). I am on OSX and I suppose I could use something like homebrew for including the patch and building. > Jambunathan K. > -- >