orgmode batch publishing failure

orgmode batch publishing failure

[henry atting]

org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-581-g0e52f0)

After updating orgmode from git batch publishing does not work anymore,
the error message says:

Autoloading failed to define function time-add

The according part of Makefile

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sheet: $(HOME)/misc/horg/ledger-queries.org $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish
	touch $(HOME)/misc/horg/ledger-queries.org
	emacs --batch -Q -l $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish --eval '(org-publish "org")'

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


.org_batch_publish

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  ;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp  -*-


(let* ((my-lisp-dir "~/dummy_layer/rechner/emacs+/")
       (default-directory my-lisp-dir)
       (orig-load-path load-path))
  (setq load-path (cons my-lisp-dir nil))
  (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path)
  (nconc load-path orig-load-path))

(require 'org)
;;____________________________________________________________________setup


 (org-babel-do-load-languages 
	'org-babel-load-languages
				       '((emacs-lisp . t)
                                        (dot . t)
                                        (ditaa . t)
					(awk . t)
 					(ledger . t)
 					(python . t)
					(shell . t)
                                        (gnuplot . t)
                                        (latex . t)))
                          

;; I don't want to be prompted on every code block evaluation
(setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)

 (setq 
 org-export-allow-BIND t
 org-export-creator-info nil
 org-html-creator-string ""
 org-html-date-format-string "%d/%m/%Y %R"
 org-html-postamble nil)


 (setq org-publish-project-alist
           '(("org"
              :base-directory "~/misc/horg/"
              :publishing-directory "~/misc/public"
              :section-numbers nil
;              :table-of-contents t
;              :html-preamble nil
	      :publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
              :style "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"../.style.css\" type=\"text/css\"/>")
		("org-static"
		 :base-directory "~/misc/horg/"
                 :base-extension "css\\|js\\|png\\|jpg\\|gif\\|pdf\\|mp3\\|ogg\\|swf"
                 :publishing-directory "~/misc/public/"
                 :recursive t
                 :publishing-function org-publish-attachment
 )
))


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Re: orgmode batch publishing failure

[Nick Dokos]

henry atting <snd@online.de> writes:

> org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-581-g0e52f0)
>
> After updating orgmode from git batch publishing does not work anymore,
> the error message says:
>
> Autoloading failed to define function time-add
>
> The according part of Makefile
>
>
> sheet: $(HOME)/misc/horg/ledger-queries.org $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish
> 	touch $(HOME)/misc/horg/ledger-queries.org
> 	emacs --batch -Q -l $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish --eval '(org-publish "org")'
>

For problems like this, I try doing it without --batch. Start emacs:

    emacs -Q -l $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish

turn on debug-on-error and then eval (org-publish "org").

time-add is defined in time-date.el which is required by org.el, so I'm
not sure why you are getting this. The backtrace (assuming you get one)
might shed some more light.

There have been situations where I get the error with --batch but not
without. These cases are more difficult to debug unfortunately.

Nick

Re: orgmode batch publishing failure

[henry atting]

> henry atting <snd@online.de> writes:
>
>> org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-581-g0e52f0)
>>
>> After updating orgmode from git batch publishing does not work anymore,
>> the error message says:
>>
>> Autoloading failed to define function time-add
>>
>> The according part of Makefile
>>
>>
>> sheet: $(HOME)/misc/horg/ledger-queries.org $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish
>> 	touch $(HOME)/misc/horg/ledger-queries.org
>> 	emacs --batch -Q -l $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish --eval '(org-publish "org")'
>>
>
> For problems like this, I try doing it without --batch. Start emacs:
>
>     emacs -Q -l $(HOME)/.org_batch_publish
>
> turn on debug-on-error and then eval (org-publish "org").

This worked flawlessly without any error...

> time-add is defined in time-date.el which is required by org.el, so I'm
> not sure why you are getting this. The backtrace (assuming you get one)
> might shed some more light.
>
> There have been situations where I get the error with --batch but not
> without. These cases are more difficult to debug unfortunately.
>

I could not track down the exact cause of this misbehaviour but I did
assume that it had something to with my migration from emacs 24* to 25*,
most probably some wrong lisp/etc directories. I removed everything and
built emacs anew, now it works again as expected.

> Nick

Thanks,
henry