Re: Org mode update breaking build?

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Tobias.

On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 17:26:05 +0200, Tobias Bading wrote:
> Grrr. Is it normal that Org updates break builds?

For me, it has become normal.  I'm not happy about it.

> I had a Git worktree with a clean checkout and build of Emacs 29 —
> 933705d61e according to the reflog. Just now I fetched the latest Emacs 29
> changes and tried to build 21ec6c1d5c using the usual “nice make -j4”,
> resulting in a *huge* wall of text. Something along the lines of

> --- %< ---

> Warning (emacs): Org version mismatch.  Org loading aborted.
> This warning usually appears when a built-in Org version is loaded
> prior to the more recent Org version.

> Version mismatch is commonly encountered in the following situations:

I don't use org, and I don't understand why I should be expected to
debug its breaking of the build.

In practice, I have to do make bootstrap every time I update my
repositories.

I would have thought a warning from org, not an error, would be
appropriate, here.

> […]

> In toplevel form:
> org/ob-core.el:31:2: Error: Org version mismatch.  Make sure that correct ‘load-path’ is set early in init.el
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:332: org/ob-core.elc] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

> --- >% ---

> A “git clean -fdx -e .ccls-cache -e compile_commands.json -e TAGS” plus
> “./autogen.sh” plus “configure […]” plus “nice make -j4” later I have a
> working clean Emacs 29 again.

> But of course the same happens again in my hacked worktree. So this time I
> try “make distclean” for a change — plus the whole autogen, configure,
> make aria again. And guess what… the error is still there!

> Is that normal? Why is snowflake Org breaking GNU Make?

I hope an org maintainer will explain this again.  I've got a feeling
the topic came up in emacs-devel some days ago.

> Tobias

> PS: please keep me CC’d, thanks

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).