Bug: 20200525 release: invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables [9.3.6 (9.3.6-75-gb614ed-elpa @ /home/jgoerzen/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20200525/)]

Bug: 20200525 release: invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables [9.3.6 (9.3.6-75-gb614ed-elpa @ /home/jgoerzen/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20200525/)]

[John Goerzen]

Hello,

First of all, THANKS for org-mode!  I have been using it for several
years, and it's fantastic.

I recently have upgraded to org 20200525 from your package repo because
org-roam requires a newer org-mode than I had.  GNU ELPA has 9.3.6,
which would be new enough, but all of my machines fail downloading the
tar of that version from ELPA with "invalid request", so I'm on
20200525.

Many actions, and in particular refile, produce:

Invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables

and fail.

(org-refile) is defined in org.el but why it doesn't seem to be seeing
org-macs is beyond me.

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5)
 of 2019-09-22, modified by Debian
Package: Org mode version 9.3.6 (9.3.6-75-gb614ed-elpa @ /home/jgoerzen/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20200525/)

Re: Bug: 20200525 release: invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables [9.3.6 (9.3.6-75-gb614ed-elpa @ /home/jgoerzen/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20200525/)]

[Kyle Meyer]

John Goerzen writes:

> I recently have upgraded to org 20200525 from your package repo because
> org-roam requires a newer org-mode than I had.  GNU ELPA has 9.3.6,
> which would be new enough, but all of my machines fail downloading the
> tar of that version from ELPA with "invalid request", so I'm on
> 20200525.
>
> Many actions, and in particular refile, produce:
>
> Invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables
>
> and fail.
>
> (org-refile) is defined in org.el but why it doesn't seem to be seeing
> org-macs is beyond me.

I installed elpa/org-20200525 in a vanilla environment, and I wasn't
able to trigger any similar failures when refiling.  My best guess is
that it's due to an interaction with the older Org that comes built-in
with Emacs and lacks the org-preserve-local-variables macro.  It's
probably worth uninstalling/reinstalling, making sure the built-in Org
isn't loaded.