In the code I posted, I had to explicitly (require 'sh-script) to ensure that the sh-ancestor-alist is loaded before the code. I'm not enough of an elisp guru to know if there's a way to defer that. Cheers, Derek On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 9:30 AM Matt wrote: > > ---- On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:30:34 -0400 Ihor Radchenko wrote --- > > > See the attached tentative patch. > > After applying the patch, I get the following error when trying to load > Emacs: > > Warning (comp): /home/ahab/Projects/org-mode/lisp/org.el: Error: Symbol's > value as variable is void sh-ancestor-alist > > I wasn't able to resolve it. I suspect the issue is on my end, such as a > mixed install or the need to re-byte-compile `sh-script.el'. > > To run Org from source I do one of the following: > > ;; When using my init > (use-package org :straight (:local-repo "/home/ahab/Projects/org-mode")) > > ;; When running emacs -q > (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/ahab/Projects/org-mode/lisp") > (require 'org-loaddefs) > > If I need to recompile Emacs byte code, I'm not sure how I'd do that since > I'm running Guix and those files live in the write protected /gnu/store. > -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Derek Chen-Becker | | GPG Key available at https://keybase.io/dchenbecker and | | https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=derek%40chen-becker.org | | Fngrprnt: EB8A 6480 F0A3 C8EB C1E7 7F42 AFC5 AFEE 96E4 6ACC | +---------------------------------------------------------------+