Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: >> Instead, adding the following to ~/.emacs does work, but this seems >> to be just a hack. Should I really use this? >> >> (load-library "org-compat.el") >> (load-library "org-odt.el") > > If the problem is where I think it is, then a (require 'org-compat) > should be a valid workaround until the final fix is in Org.
This is how org-compat.el gets loaded. The load sequence is triggered by emacs -Q -L /org/path M-x load-library RET org-odt RET. ,---- | *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-compat 'require) | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc" | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org 'require) | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-exp.elc" | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-exp 'require) | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-lparse.elc" | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-lparse 'require) | "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-odt.elc" | ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-odt 'require) | nil `---- So org-odt indirectly requires org-compat. In OP's case, the org-compat is provided by older library that comes with Vanilla Emacs. --