Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Bastien writes: I'll add a file to the tarball that just defines these two variables and include that when absolutely no version is defined. Can't we just have this in default.mk? Do we need yet another file? That would mean I'd have to change default.mk while building the tarball and

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-26 Thread Bastien
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Bastien writes: I'll add a file to the tarball that just defines these two variables and include that when absolutely no version is defined. Can't we just have this in default.mk? Do we need yet another file? That would mean I'd have to change

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian van den Broek writes: I've seemingly managed to install org 7.9, but M-x org-version yields Org-mode version N/A (N/A @ /home/brian/.emacsd/site-lisp/) The details: You could've saved yourself a lot of writing if you'd just posted what make config-all prints out. But the only way

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 25 August 2012 13:24, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de wrote: Brian van den Broek writes: I've seemingly managed to install org 7.9, but M-x org-version yields Org-mode version N/A (N/A @ /home/brian/.emacsd/site-lisp/) The details: You could've saved yourself a lot of writing if you'd just

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian van den Broek writes: On 25 August 2012 13:24, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de wrote: That does seem to fix the manifested problem. (make install-info seems to leave with with the 6.33x docs, but that's a problem for another day and thread, I expect.) Then the configuration for the info

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Bastien
Achim Gratz strom...@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

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 25 August 2012 16:12, Bastien b...@altern.org wrote: Achim Gratz strom...@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

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Bastien writes: 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. Yes, that is for when you would want to run uncompiled from the unpacked tarball. I assumed that, in the absence of git, `make' would rely on this. No.

Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

2012-08-25 Thread Bastien
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Bastien writes: 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. Yes, that is for when you would want to run uncompiled from the unpacked tarball. Okay. I'll add a file to the