From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Resources for an old newbie ? Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:19:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87r0qs2kxt.fsf@web.de> References: <0e037ca2-517d-3b52-2187-a7bba7956fbd@starynkevitch.net> <87353ndhzg.fsf@web.de> <871qj7397n.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ilch19ub.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87cz2nvk51.fsf@web.de> <87v8gfybhv.fsf@robbyzambito.me> <87zg5p5hm0.fsf@web.de> <875y8a698v.fsf@web.de> <875y89z9m7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <8e87f1a4-2868-c4b5-7250-4081cf39654c@gmail.com> <87wn0k2ogr.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25717"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:H0CihEk2/+Wry7Pru1TxmyvM44c= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 04 01:20:19 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q5aXi-0006Uz-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5aX2-0001de-Cn; Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5aX1-0001dG-3t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5aWz-0007zQ-Mn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q5aWx-0005YX-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:19:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.248, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143836 Archived-At: David Masterson writes: > >> > But imagine what happens if after half-an hour of compilation > >> > inexperienced user is presented with "Org version mismatch error", as > >> > I have been several times before. (still tracking that error down, > >> > for now I usually "solve it" by `git clean -dxf` and thus full > >> > rebuild, but that's non-optimal) > >> > >> That's probably a conflict with the pre-installed Emacs on Debian? > >> Maybe remove the old version? > > > > It's something that happens from time to time when recompiling Emacs, > > there is no direct relation to other Emacs installations. > > I don't know. I believe, in this case, it was something in org-compat.el > for setting up version compatability that didn't work well when > compiled. The old .elc (in the pre-installed Emacs) was overriding the > current .el (in the ELPA package) and the change in org-compat for > (IIRC) Org 9.3 was enough that new code dependent on the new org-compat > broke (org-compat is supposed to handle that). I thought later versions > of Org fixed this problem. I remember hearing about this one. We probably speak about different but related and similarly behaving issues. Michael.