2016-11-07 12:44 GMT+01:00 Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I updated my emacs packages this morning, including org 9.0, from GNU
> elpa. Apparently (based on other folders in my elpa installation folder),
> my last previous update was on april 11, 2016, so the problem may not come
> from the very latest version. Nonetheless, I didn't find any other mention
> of it online.
>
> So, how does the problem appear? When I start emacs, I get the following
> "warnings":
>
> > WARNING: No org-loaddefs.el file could be found from where org.el is
> loaded.
> > You need to run "make" or "make autoloads" from Org lisp directory
> > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
> `(...)/.emacs.d/init.el':
>
> > Symbol's function definition is void: org-element-update-syntax
>
> For the first warning, I tried looking in the ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20161102
> folder (which is where the loaded org.el file is), and it does contain
> org-loaddefs.el. There is no makefile, but I guess that it is normal for an
> installation using elpa.
>
> The second warning is an error and blocks further evaluation of my init
> file. For some reason though, --debug-init doesn't give any stacktrace.
>
> I'm using emacs 24.3.1 on linux (ubuntu 14.04).
>

When I try to evaluate org-loaddefs manually, I get an error "Symbol's
function definition is void: function-put".

Apparently, based on this thread [1], it can happen if I installed org
using a more recent version of emacs than the one I am using currently. It
was certainly the case until this morning, but I installed the update from
this computer, and after the problem appeared, I uninstalled and
reinstalled org, again from this computer.

Replacing occurrences of function-put with put got rid of the first warning
(the warning message could have been more helpful), but not of the second
one.

org-element-update-syntax is defined in org-element.el, so I guess it is
another compilation problem. How can I make sure that the package is
compiled for my version of emacs?

Thibaut Verron

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-05/msg00336.html