Re: Latest Org and Carbon Emacs

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Karl Maihofer <ignoramus@gmx.de> wrote:

> Until now I used Org with Debian GNU/Linux. Today I bought a MacBook
> Pro 13" and I spent the evening making my first steps with MacOS. I
> installed the Carbon Emacs package and configured Emacs to use the
> latest Org-Version that I copied to ~/elisp/org-mode/.
> 
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/org-mode/lisp/")
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
> 
> When I try to export an org-file to LaTeX I get the following error:
> 
> org-export-latex-first-lines: Symbol's function definition is void:
> org-cleaned-string-for-export
> 
> I think I saw this error already some time ago and the reason was,
> that an old org-version conflicts with the one I use. Under Debian I
> renamed the Org-elisp-files in the Emacs-Program-Directory and the
> problem was solved. But under MacOS I cannot find these files - as I
> wrote, I am completely new to MacOS. I scanned the Folders
> /Applications/Emacs.app/* but couldn't find the org elisp files.
> 
> Could anybody give me a hint where to find the files and how to solve
> my problem?
> 

You are missing a

(require 'org-install)

after the  load path is set.

HTH,
Nick

PS. Checking org-version is always a good idea: M-x org-version

You can find where emacs is picking up the files by evaluating this:
 (locate-library "org")

or interactively:
 M-x locate-library <RET> org <RET>