Re: Opendocument export causes error

Re: Opendocument export causes error

[Torsten Anders]

Dear Achim,

Thanks a lot for your help! 

> Try adding (require 'org) or alternatively — if you know you never
> use the Org version that comes with Emacs (that means you need to be
> extra careful with things like 'emacs -Q') — (require 'org-loaddefs).

I tried both adding (require 'org) and (require 'org-loaddefs) to ~/.emacs but they both make no difference to this problem, I still get the error 

  call-interactively: Symbol's value as variable is void: err

Instead, adding the following to ~/.emacs does work, but this seems to be just a hack. Should I really use this?

(load-library "org-compat.el")
(load-library "org-odt.el")


> here's your real-world example of how things don't work if the wrong autoload definitions are used.


Does this mean there are possibly more things that did not load as they should?

Thanks a lot again! 

Best wishes,
Torsten

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Course Leader, Music Technology
University of Bedfordshire
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http://www.torsten-anders.de

Re: Opendocument export causes error

[Achim Gratz]

Torsten Anders <torsten.anders <at> beds.ac.uk> writes:
> I tried both adding (require 'org) and (require 'org-loaddefs) to ~/.emacs
> but they both make no difference to this problem, I still get the error 
> 
>   call-interactively: Symbol's value as variable is void: err

Yes, that problem is apparently someplace else.  I'll let Jambunathan have a go
first.

> Instead, adding the following to ~/.emacs does work, but this seems
> to be just a hack. Should I really use this?
> 
> (load-library "org-compat.el")
> (load-library "org-odt.el")

If the problem is where I think it is, then a (require 'org-compat) should be a
valid workaround until the final fix is in Org.

> Does this mean there are possibly more things that did not load as they should?

The combination of the version of Org in your version of Emacs and a more recent
Org can't be expected to work correctly in all cases unless you add one of the
requires I've shown.


Regards,
Achim.

(ATTN: debugging tip) Re: Opendocument export causes error

[Jambunathan K]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@NexGo.DE> writes:

>> Instead, adding the following to ~/.emacs does work, but this seems
>> to be just a hack. Should I really use this?
>> 
>> (load-library "org-compat.el")
>> (load-library "org-odt.el")
>
> If the problem is where I think it is, then a (require 'org-compat)
> should be a valid workaround until the final fix is in Org.

This is how org-compat.el gets loaded.  The load sequence is triggered
by

    emacs -Q -L /org/path 
    M-x load-library RET org-odt RET.

,----
| *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-compat 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-exp.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-exp 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-lparse.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-lparse 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-odt.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-odt 'require)
| nil
`----

So org-odt indirectly requires org-compat.  In OP's case, the org-compat
is provided by older library that comes with Vanilla Emacs.

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Re: (ATTN: debugging tip) Re: Opendocument export causes error

[Achim Gratz]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> So org-odt indirectly requires org-compat.

Even though it may have no bearing in this case: AFAICS it uses a macro from
org-compat directly, so it shouldn't rely on other files to pull in that
definition, it should require it directly.

> In OP's case, the org-compat
> is provided by older library that comes with Vanilla Emacs.

Unless I'm missing something, this is only possible if it gets loaded before the
load-path to the new Org is set up.  If so, a (require 'org-compat) would not
correct the situation, while a (load-library "org-compat") would.  I would like
to see the value of load-history on the OP's box after an

emacs -Q -L /path/to/org

if possible.


Regards,
Achim.