Hello Johnny >> It looks like one of your installation step is non-standard. There is an >> easy workaround available but I would like to make sure that org-odt >> auto-configures itself with minimal user intervention. > > Make on unmodified Makefile, manually moved to /usr/local/share > direcory.
You MUST NOT copy files by hand. You MUST use 'make install' to copy the files. There are two variables - lispdir and datadir - that determine where the lisp and styles files go. Here is the unmodified Makefile. ,---- Makefile | # Where local software is found | prefix=/usr/local | | # Where local lisp files go | lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp | | # Where data files go | # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter. | # See comments under DATAFILES. | datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc `---- If you do M-x locate-library RET org-odt RET on your current installation, you are likely to see the following message: ,---- | Library is file "/usr/local/share/emacs/org-mode" as directory. `---- Based on the above setting, you can modify the default lispdir as follows: ,---- Makefile | # Where local lisp files go | lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/org-mode <================ | | # Where data files go | # $(datadir) contains auxiliary files for use with ODT exporter. | # See comments under DATAFILES. | datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc `---- The style files will then get automatically get copied to /usr/local/share/emacs/etc. It's NOT important what the values for lispdir and datadir are. What is VERY IMPORTANT is that you use "make install" to copy the files. > >> - What OS/Distrib are you using > > Fedora 16. I am on Windows. I don't use any of the Gnu/Linuxes. I am not sure what Fedora policy for installation is. May be org-7.8.03 hasn't hit Fedora yet and that's the reason why you chose to download and install by hand. FYI, Gentoo uses the following values for lispdir and datadir. prefix = /usr lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/ datadir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/ See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-12/msg00800.html. --
